NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock758MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
1312 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680M
+2447%
2.038 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 600M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
719 MHz
Base Clock
-
758 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
1344
Shading Units
32
112
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.22 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
84.90 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.038 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
84.90 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
23W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G96C
N13E-GTX-A2
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
