NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +600%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

8

480

Shading Units

64

60

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

95W

600 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

GF100

GPU Name

G94

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

529 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

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