NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9200M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9200M 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 9600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9200M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 450 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9200M

Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 23 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 23 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 9200M
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G96	C79MX
Launch date	25 October 2008	15 October 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	314 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3