GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 980MX
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 148W)
GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
1632 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce GTX 980MX
+4800%
3920
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2016
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1664
16
TMUs
104
8
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
75.39 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
148W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GM204
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N16E-GXX-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
