NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M +32%

0.106 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

4

48

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

G96C

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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