NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 A230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock855MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 A230
+583%
0.547 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
780 MHz
-
Boost Clock
855 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
20
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.840 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.10 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
547.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
34.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Jet
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Jet PRO
(216-0856040)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.69 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
56 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)
