NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 540 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 540 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 50W)
AMD Radeon 540 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1124MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon 540 Mobile
+1338%
1.151 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 9M
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1100 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.98 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.97 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1151 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1151 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
71.94 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Lexa
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
