NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 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
Released 3 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (23W vs 45W)
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (35.20GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Nov 2004
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce Go 6
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-III
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
550 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
35.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
45W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
NV41
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
