GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce 840M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840M 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 16.02GB/s)
Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)
GeForce 840M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1124MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce 840M
+978%
863
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1029 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
16.02GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.992 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.98 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
863.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
26.98 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
33W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GM108
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N15S-GT
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
Unknown
121 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
