NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS and 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition +15%

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

VS

GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 9M

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

4

32

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

6.880 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

68.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

G96C

NB9P-GE2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

121 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

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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