NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 A260
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock980MHz
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 A260
+840%
0.752 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
980 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.52 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Topaz
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Topaz XT
(216-0858020)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5
