NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +1781%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G96C

N16P-GX-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

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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

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