NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
+467%
1.089 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
837 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
320bit
Memory Bus
256bit
133.9GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
8
448
Shading Units
64
56
TMUs
32
40
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
640 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.02 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
34.05 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1089 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
95W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
G94
GT215-400-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
