GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 580M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M 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 100W)
GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce GTX 580M
+1090%
952
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2011
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 500M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
8
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.920 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.68 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
952.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
79.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF114
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N12E-GTX2-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
332 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
