NVIDIA NVS 3100M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 3100M 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 NVS 3100M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (14W vs 23W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
NVS 3100M
0.047 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
+70%
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2010
Release Date
Oct 2008
NVS Mobile
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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790 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.64GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
2
SM Count
4
16
Shading Units
32
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
8
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32 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
2.424 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
4.848 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
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46.98 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
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Board Design
14W
TDP
23W
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No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
G96C
N10M-NS
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
