GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Quadro FX Go540
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX Go540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 7.200GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (23W vs 25W)
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Aug 2004
GeForce 9M
Generation
Quadro FX Go
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
225 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
7.200GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.200 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
25W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
NV43
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
QDFX-GO540-N-A4
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
