NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 100W)
AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1077MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
2272 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 580 Mobile
+6103%
4.963 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 9M
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1077 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
34.46 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.963 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.963 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
310.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
100W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Polaris 20
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Polaris 20M XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
232 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
