NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4580 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)
ATI Radeon HD 4580 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.18GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
56 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4580
0.191 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Nov 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
693 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
22.18GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
120
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.184 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.368 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
191.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
65W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV635
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV635 PRO
(215-0682008)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.378 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
135 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
