GeForce GT 240 vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (69W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 240
+33%
257
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
54.40GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
12
SM Count
8
96
Shading Units
64
32
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
17.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
257.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
69W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
G94
GT215-450-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
