NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M 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
Lower TDP (23W vs 28W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 250M
+200%
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2009
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 200M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
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-
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4
SM Count
12
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
8
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32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
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80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
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Board Design
23W
TDP
28W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GT215
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N10E-GE-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
144 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
