NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition 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 11 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 9M
Generation
M5x
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
396 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
12.67GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.592 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.592 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
M56
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.157 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
150 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
