GeForce 305M vs GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M 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 305M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 23W)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 305M
37
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
+116%
80
Graphics Card
Jan 2010
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 300M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
700 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
11.20GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
4
16
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.100 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
4.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
36.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
14W
TDP
23W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
G96C
N11M-LP1
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
