NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M 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 50W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock950MHz
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 660M
+812%
0.73 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Mar 2012
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
835 MHz
-
Boost Clock
950 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.600 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
729.6 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
30.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GK107
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N13E-GE-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
