GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Radeon E4690 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon E4690 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (23W vs 30W)
Radeon E4690 MXM 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Radeon E4690 MXM
+380%
384
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2009
GeForce 9M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
30W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
RV730
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
RV730 XT E4690
(215-0729055)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.514 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
146 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1