GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 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 430 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (49W vs 95W)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
+40%
269
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
8
96
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G94
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
