NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc B580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM Arc B580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 190W)
Intel Arc B580 's Advantages
Released 16 years late
Boost Clock2670MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (456.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Arc B580
+7019%
13.67 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Dec 2024
GeForce 9
Generation
Battlemage
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
2670 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2670 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
2375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
456.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
2560
32
TMUs
160
16
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
20
-
L1 Cache
256 KB (per EU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
18 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
213.6 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
427.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.34 TFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.67 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1.709 TFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
190W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
BMG-G21
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
SRPMF
Tesla
Architecture
Xe2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
19.6 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
272 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.4
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
