NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce MX230
+880%
0.784 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1519 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
256
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
10W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GP108
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
74 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
6.1
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
