NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
+49%
0.311 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
667 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
21.34GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
8
96
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
65W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G94
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
