NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 545 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (70W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 545
+116%
0.415 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
3
SM Count
8
144
Shading Units
64
24
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.320 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
17.28 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
414.7 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
34.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
70W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
238 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
