NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (95W vs 197W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
+100%
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Mar 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
16
64
Shading Units
128
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
197W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G92
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
