NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 365W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 590
+547%
1.244 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Mar 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
854 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1536MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
164.0GB/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
19.46 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.91 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1244 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
155.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
365W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GF110
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF110-351-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
3 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
520 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
