NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 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 160W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 X2
+390%
0.942 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
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
7
64
Shading Units
336
32
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.814 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.26 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
941.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
78.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GF104
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF104-300-KB-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
332 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
