NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 850M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.03GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 45W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 850M
+1343%
1.155 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Oct 2008
GeForce 800M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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1001 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
32.03GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
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SM Count
4
640
Shading Units
32
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
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64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
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2 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
14.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
36.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
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1155 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
36.08 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
45W
TDP
23W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
G96C
N15P-GT-A1
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Maxwell
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
148 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
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
