NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A730M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM Arc A730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 80W)
Intel Arc A730M 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1100MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
3040 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Arc A730M
+8347%
6.758 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 9M
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
300 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1100 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
3072
16
TMUs
192
8
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
RT Cores
24
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
12 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
211.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
13.52 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.758 TFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
80W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
DG2-512
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Tesla
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
