GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce 9300M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9300M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (13W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
+263%
80
GeForce 9300M GS
22
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-I
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
8
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
32 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.200 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
13W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G98
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
NB9M-GS
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
86 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
