GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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 GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
272 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)
Lower TDP (95W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+372%
907
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Jul 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
900 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
8
336
Shading Units
64
56
TMUs
32
24
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
G94
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
332 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
