NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 M255
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M255 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R5 M255 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock940MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 M255
+801%
0.721 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Oct 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
925 MHz
-
Boost Clock
940 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.520 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.56 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
721.9 GFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
721.9 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
45.12 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Topaz
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Topaz PRO
(216-0858030)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5
