GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 280M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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 GTX 280M 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce GTX 280M
+367%
374
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Mar 2009
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 200M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-IV
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
950 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
60.80GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
16
32
Shading Units
128
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
16
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.360 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.44 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
374.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G92
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N10E-GTX
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
324 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
