NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 615
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 615 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 49W)
NVIDIA GeForce 615 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 615
+58%
0.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
May 2012
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 600A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
1
32
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.320 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.280 GTexel/s
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80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
126.7 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
10.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
49W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF108
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
116 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
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
