NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 +467%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Mar 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

837 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1280MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

64

Shading Units

448

32

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

GF100

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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