GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs G105M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1293not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.71no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGT218G96C
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date16 July 2009 (15 years ago)25 October 2008 (16 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 cores832
Core clock speed500 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors260 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0008.000
Floating-point processing power0.03424 TFLOPS0.08 TFLOPS
Gigaflops38no data
ROPs48
TMUs816

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).

Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-II

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountUp to 512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 (DDR2)/700 (GDDR3) MHz792 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 (DDR2)/11 (GDDR3)25.34 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortHDMINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 July 2009 25 October 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 23 Watt

GeForce G105M has an age advantage of 8 months, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 64.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce G105M and GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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