NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (29W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+23%
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 520 PCI
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
1
64
Shading Units
48
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
29W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GF119
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF119-300-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
79 mm²
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
