NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (69W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
+33%
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
12
64
Shading Units
96
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
69W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GT215
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
144 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
