NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 88% higher core clock speed: 1127 MHz vs 600 MHz
3.8x more texture fill rate: 72 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
16x more pipelines: 1024 vs 64
12.6x better floating-point performance: 2,413 gflops vs 192 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB

Launch date	22 January 2015 vs 22 December 2008
Core clock speed	1127 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	72 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 64
Floating-point performance	2,413 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Around 26% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 120 Watt
76x more memory clock speed: 532 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt vs 120 Watt
Memory clock speed	532 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	6111
PassMark - G2D Mark	673
Geekbench - OpenCL	18734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	73.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	792.44
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.338
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	200.825
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7218
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3691
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	162

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	Tesla
Code name	GM206	G94
Launch date	22 January 2015	22 December 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$199
Place in performance rating	514	not rated
Price now	$229.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	34.63
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz
Core clock speed	1127 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	1024
Floating-point performance	2,413 gflops	192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1024	64
Texture fill rate	72 billion / sec	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	95 Watt
Transistor count	2,940 million	505 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	2x DVI
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	9.5" (24.1 cm)	229 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
SLI options	2x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pins	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB / s	17.02 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	532 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost