GeForce GT 540M vs GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M 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 GT 540M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 35W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 540M
+222%
258
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 500M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
4
96
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.688 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
10.75 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
258.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
21.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
35W
TDP
23W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G96C
N12P-GS-A1
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
121 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
