NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 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

16 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition +43%

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

0.134 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

266 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

64

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

GF108

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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