AMD Radeon R5 A255 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 A255 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A255 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

AMD Radeon R5 A255 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock940MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A255 +801%

0.721 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A255

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GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2008

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

940 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.520 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

22.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

721.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

G96C

Topaz PRO (216-0858030)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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