NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1038MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +3221%

2.657 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

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GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G96C

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

4.0

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