GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Radeon R9 M290X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 100W)
Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock900MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Radeon R9 M290X
+2780%
2304
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
850 MHz
-
Boost Clock
900 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Neptune
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Neptune XT
(216-0847000)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1