GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile 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 RTX 3050 A Mobile 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1343MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
1760 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce RTX 3050 A Mobile
+5916%
4813
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2024
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1065 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1343 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
14
32
Shading Units
1792
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
56
-
RT Cores
14
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.98 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.21 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.813 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.813 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
75.21 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
45W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GA106
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
12 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.6
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
