GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Radeon R7 M260
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M260 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 14.40GB/s)
Radeon R7 M260 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock980MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Radeon R7 M260
+840%
752
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
940 MHz
-
Boost Clock
980 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.52 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
752.6 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Topaz
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Topaz XT
(216-0858020)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5