GeForce GTX 660M vs GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M 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
GeForce GTX 660M Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock950MHz
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660M
+812%
730
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
835 MHz
Base Clock
-
950 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
4
384
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
7.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
30.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
729.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
30.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
23W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
G96C
N13E-GE-A2
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
