NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X 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 250W)
AMD Radeon R9 M295X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M295X
+3601%
2.961 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.14 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.54 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.961 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.961 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
185.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
250W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Amethyst
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
