NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 6 months late
Lower TDP (95W vs 236W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
176 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
+223%
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
30
64
Shading Units
240
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
236W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GT200
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G200-300-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
