Apple A12Z Bionic vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Comparative analysis of Apple A12Z Bionic and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

Apple A12Z Bionic

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Differences

Reasons to consider the Apple A12Z Bionic

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	25 Mar 2020 vs 23 October 2008
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Around 44% higher core clock speed: 1625 MHz vs 1125 MHz
6x more pipelines: 48 vs 8

Core clock speed	1625 MHz vs 1125 MHz
Pipelines	48 vs 8

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Apple A12Z Bionic
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Name	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Geekbench - OpenCL	11391
PassMark - G3D Mark		330
PassMark - G2D Mark		79
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2239
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2239

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A12Z Bionic	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Essentials
Launch date	25 Mar 2020	23 October 2008
Place in performance rating	1451	1448
Architecture		Tesla
Code name		G94
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1125 MHz	1625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	65 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.152 TFLOPS
Pipelines	8	48
Render output units	32
CUDA cores		48
Floating-point performance		156 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Texture fill rate		15.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		90 Watt
Transistor count		505 million
Memory
Memory bandwidth	68.2 GB/s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory type	LPDDR4X-4266	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory clock speed		900 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		9" (22.9 cm)
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		6-pin
API support
DirectX		10.0
OpenGL		2.1
Technologies
CUDA