GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce MX550
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX550 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 25W)
GeForce MX550 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1320MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce MX550
+3278%
2703
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1065 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1320 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
16
32
Shading Units
1024
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.12 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.24 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.703 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
42.24 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
25W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
TU117
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
MX550
Tesla
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
12 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
4.7 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
7.5
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
