NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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 550X Mobile 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1287MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon 550X Mobile
+1958%
1.647 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Apr 2018
GeForce 9M
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1100 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1287 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
20.59 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
51.48 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1.647 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.647 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
103.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Polaris 23
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Polaris 23 MXT
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
