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).

 

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 1437 1435
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