GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GT 520

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1145	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	1.91	no data
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	GF119	G96C
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	13 April 2011 (13 years ago)	25 October 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$59	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	48	32
Core clock speed	810 MHz	500 MHz
Number of transistors	292 million	314 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	29 Watt	23 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	102 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	6.480	8.000
Floating-point processing power	0.1555 TFLOPS	0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	8
TMUs	8	16

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 support	16x PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	145 mm	no data
Height	2.7" (6.9 cm)	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	DDR3	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB (DDR3)	512 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz (DDR3)	792 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	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 Connectors	Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	Internal	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	5.1	4.0
OpenGL	4.2	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	1.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	13 April 2011	25 October 2008
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB (DDR3)	512 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	29 Watt	23 Watt

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