GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Radeon E8950
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 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 95W)
Radeon E8950 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Radeon E8950
+5020%
4096
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Sep 2015
GeForce 9M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 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
-
Compute Units
32
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.096 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
256.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
95W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Amethyst
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
E8950
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3