NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock1038MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970M
+3221%
2.657 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Oct 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
924 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GM204
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
