NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Lower TDP (31W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+326%
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 310 OEM
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
5.328GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
2
64
Shading Units
16
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
31W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GT218
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GT218-300-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
