NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 7.6 GTexel / s
Around 32% better floating-point performance: 80 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 80 nm
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1584 MHz vs 700 MHz

Launch date	25 October 2008 vs 1 February 2008
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 7.6 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	80 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 80 nm
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz vs 700 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Around 90% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 23 Watt

Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 23 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark		134
PassMark - G2D Mark		59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1053

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G96	G84
Launch date	25 October 2008	1 February 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	1608
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	950 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	32	32
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s	7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	289 million
CUDA cores		32
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.34 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1584 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory		0