NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800M GTX 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 11 months late
Lower TDP (23W vs 65W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800M GTX
+200%
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 8M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
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-
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-
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
12
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
65W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G92
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
NB8E-GTX-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
324 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
