NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
+8%
0.208 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
8
64
Shading Units
64
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G94
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
