NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5600
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Mobility FireGL V5600 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 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
ATI Mobility FireGL V5600 's Advantages
88 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Mobility FireGL V5600
+50%
0.12 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
Mobility FireGL
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
120
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
120.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
M76
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
M76 GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
