NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock1127MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980M
+4227%
3.462 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Oct 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1038 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1127 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
8
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
72.13 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.462 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
108.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GM204
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N16E-GX-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
