GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Radeon RX 540X Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X Mobile 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 50W)
Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1211MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Radeon RX 540X Mobile
+1450%
1240
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Apr 2018
GeForce 9M
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1124 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1211 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/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
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.38 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.75 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1240 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1240 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
77.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
50W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Polaris 23
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Polaris 23 MXL
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