Radeon R7 M260DX vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated930
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameG94Jet
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date22 December 2008 (16 years ago)7 January 2014 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores64320
Core clock speed600 MHz780 MHz
Boost clock speedno data855 MHz
Number of transistors505 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattno data
Texture fill rate19.2017.10
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPS0.5472 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs3220
L1 Cacheno data80 KB
L2 Cache64 KB128 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length229 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed266 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth17.02 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors2x DVINo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2008 7 January 2014
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm

R7 M260DX has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and Radeon R7 M260DX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition is a desktop graphics card while Radeon R7 M260DX is a notebook one.

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
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