NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 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 95W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1515MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (896.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
10464 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile
+39650%
31.8 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 50 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
990 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1515 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR7
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
896.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
82
32
Shading Units
10496
16
TMUs
328
8
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
328
-
RT Cores
82
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
169.7 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
496.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
31.80 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
31.80 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
496.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
95W
-
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GB203
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
GN22-X11-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
45.6 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
378 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.4
1.1
CUDA
12.0
4.0
Shader Model
6.8
