GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 480M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)
GeForce GTX 480M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce GTX 480M
+647%
598
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
11
32
Shading Units
352
16
TMUs
44
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.350 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
18.70 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
598.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
74.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF100
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N11E-GTX-A3
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
