NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP 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
Released 1 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
Lower TDP (65W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 7 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
65W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G71
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G71-GT2-H-N-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.278 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
