GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Radeon Pro 555X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 555X 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 75W)
Radeon Pro 555X 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (94.08GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Radeon Pro 555X
+1641%
1393
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jul 2018
GeForce 9M
Generation
Radeon Pro Mac
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1470 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
94.08GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.51 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.54 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1393 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1393 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
87.07 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Polaris 21
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 PRO
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
123 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