NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 375W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 480 Core 512
+461%
1.078 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1536MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
16
64
Shading Units
512
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.86 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.73 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1078 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
375W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GF100
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-ES-DT1-A2
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
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
