NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GS 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
Released 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
56 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+772%
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 9300 GS
0.022 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
5.328GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
1
64
Shading Units
8
32
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.268 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.268 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G98S
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
86 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
