NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1188MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (90W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 950
+850%
1.825 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Aug 2015
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1024 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
768
32
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
90W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GM206
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
