NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI 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)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (49W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 430 PCI
+40%
0.269 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
2
64
Shading Units
96
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
49W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GF108
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
