NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 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 MX230 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
+880%
0.784 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
4
256
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
10W
TDP
23W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
G96C
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
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
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
