NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS 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
Released 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (11W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
+207%
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 8400M GS
0.026 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-I
Clock Speeds
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
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-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.600 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.200 GTexel/s
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80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
25.60 GFLOPS
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Board Design
23W
TDP
11W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G86
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
NB8M-GS
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
127 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
