NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 GTX 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
176 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Lower TDP (95W vs 236W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 280
+223%
0.622 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1107 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
141.7GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
8
240
Shading Units
64
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
19.26 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
48.16 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
622.1 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
77.76 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
236W
TDP
95W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200
GPU Name
G94
G200-300-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
576 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
