GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Radeon E9172 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM 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 35W)
Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock1219MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Radeon E9172 MXM
+1460%
1248
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Oct 2017
GeForce 9M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1124 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1219 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.50 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.01 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1248 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1248 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
78.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
35W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Lexa
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
E9170
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
