NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5700
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Mobility FireGL V5700 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 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 's Advantages
88 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Mobility FireGL V5700
+80%
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9M
Generation
Mobility FireGL
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
120
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
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-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
M86
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
M86-M GL
(216-0683008)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.378 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
135 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
