NVIDIA NVS 5200M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 5200M 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 NVS 5200M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (23W vs 25W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
NVS 5200M
+200%
0.24 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Oct 2008
NVS Mobile
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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900 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
2
SM Count
4
96
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
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-
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-
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-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
10.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
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-
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240.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
20.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
23W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
GF117
GPU Name
G96C
N13M-NS1
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
121 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
