NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 50% higher pipelines: 96 vs 64
Around 62% better floating-point performance: 311.04 gflops vs 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 95 Watt
3x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3) vs 532 MHz

Launch date	1 February 2011 vs 22 December 2008
Core clock speed	1620 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 64
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 95 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3) vs 532 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Around 48% higher texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 13.0 billion / sec

Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s vs 13.0 billion / sec

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	774
PassMark - G2D Mark	237
Geekbench - OpenCL	2626
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	171.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.65
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.729
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	19.871
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3275
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3275

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G94
Launch date	1 February 2011	22 December 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1342	not rated
Price now	$69.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	14.03
Technical info
Core clock speed	1620 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	98 °C
Pipelines	96	64
Texture fill rate	13.0 billion / sec	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	95 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	505 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, HDMIVGADual Link DVI	2x DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	5.7" (14.5 cm)	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.2	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5)	17.02 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)	532 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR2
Standard memory config per GPU	1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA