NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Lower TDP (14W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 120M
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2009
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 100M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
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-
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4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
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32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
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80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
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Board Design
23W
TDP
14W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G96C
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N10P-GV1
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
