NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 20W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
+15%
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GS
0.069 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 100M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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792 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
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-
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4
SM Count
4
32
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
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32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.440 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.880 GTexel/s
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80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
68.80 GFLOPS
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Board Design
14W
TDP
20W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
G96C
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GPU Variant
NB9P-GE2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
