NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
+467%
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1280MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
14
64
Shading Units
448
32
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
215W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GT215
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GT215-400-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
144 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
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
