NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580M +1090%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

VS

GeForce 9600M GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

8

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.920 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

39.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

79.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF114

GPU Name

G96C

N12E-GTX2-A1

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

121 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

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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