GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (23W vs 89W)
GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Feb 2005
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce Go 6
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
12
8
ROPs
8
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
89W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
NV41
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
GO6800 U
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
