NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 64 vs 32
2.4x better floating-point performance: 192 gflops vs 80 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	64 vs 32
Floating-point performance	192 gflops vs 80 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
6.8x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 95 Watt
3x more memory clock speed: 1584 MHz vs 532 MHz

Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz vs 532 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G94	G96C
Launch date	22 December 2008	12 December 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	192 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	64	32
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	505 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	17.02 GB / s	25.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	532 MHz	1584 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR3