GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 850A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A 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 45W)
GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock936MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce GTX 850A
+1397%
1198
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Mar 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 800A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
902 MHz
-
Boost Clock
936 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.98 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.44 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1198 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
37.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
45W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GM107
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N15P-GT-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
