GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce 720M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)
GeForce 720M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce 720M
+200%
240
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Apr 2013
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 700M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.00 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
20.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
33W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF117
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N14M-GE
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
