NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (95W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +223%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G94

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

236W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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