NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6530
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (19.20GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
336 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (39W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6530
+170%
0.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
Northern Islands
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
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
19.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
400
32
TMUs
20
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.200 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
520.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
39W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Redwood
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Redwood PRO
(215-0757004)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
