GeForce 9700M GTS vs GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 60W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9700M GTS
+58%
127
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
6
SM Count
4
48
Shading Units
32
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
12.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
127.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
23W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G96C
NB9E-GS
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
