GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 550M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 550M 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 35W)
GeForce GT 550M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce GT 550M
+255%
284
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
4
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.960 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.84 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
284.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
23.68 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
35W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF108
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N12P-GT1-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 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
