GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce 9800S
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)
GeForce 9800S 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce 9800S
+140%
192
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
8
32
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G94
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
9800S
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
240 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
