NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 305M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 305M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
+116%
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 305M
0.037 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2010
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s
Render Config
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4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
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32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.100 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.200 GTexel/s
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80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.80 GFLOPS
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Board Design
23W
TDP
14W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GT218
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N11M-LP1
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
