NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E8860
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon E8860 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 37W)
AMD Radeon E8860 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock625MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon E8860
+900%
0.8 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
575 MHz
-
Boost Clock
625 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/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
10.00 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
800.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
50.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
37W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
1x VGA
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Venus
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Venus MCM
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
