NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 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
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+23%
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 230
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
6
64
Shading Units
48
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G94B
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
196 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
