NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GT216GPU NameG96C
N10P-GE-A2Model numberNB9P-GS
Tesla 2.0ArchitectureTesla
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size55 nm
486 millionTransistors314 million
100 mm²Die Size121 mm²

Graphics Card

Jun 15th, 2009Release DateOct 25th, 2008
GeForce 200MFamilyGeForce 9M
(9600M)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 100MPredecessorGeForce 8M
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfaceMXM-II

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size512 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus128 bit
25.60 GB/sBandwidth25.34 GB/s

Performance

4.000 GPixel/sPixel fillrate4.000 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/sTexture fillrate8.000 GTexel/s
105.6 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance80.00 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory Clock792 MHz
1584 Mbps effective
500 MHzGPU Clock500 MHz

Render Config

48Shading Units32
16TMUs16
8ROPs8
64 KBL2 Cache32 KB
6SM Count4

Board Design

23 WThermal design power (TDP)23 W
No outputsDisplay ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

11.1 (10_1)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
3.3OpenGL3.3
1.1OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
4.1Shader Model4.0
1.2CUDA1.1