NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA NVS 5200M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM NVS 5200M 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 14.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (23W vs 25W)
NVIDIA NVS 5200M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
NVS 5200M
+200%
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 9M
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
20.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
25W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF117
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N13M-NS1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
