NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 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
Lower TDP (95W vs 106W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
+213%
0.601 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
902 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
57.73GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
4
64
Shading Units
192
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
601.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
50.11 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
106W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GF116
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF116-200-KA-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
238 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
