NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (159.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
176 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 204W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
+240%
0.708 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2009
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1242 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
159.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
8
240
Shading Units
64
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.74 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
51.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
708.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
88.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
204W
TDP
95W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
G94
G200-350-B3
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
470 mm²
Die Size
240 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
1.3
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
