GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameM96G96C
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date16 September 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 cores32032
Core clock speed680 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors514 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate21.768.000
Floating-point processing power0.4352 TFLOPS0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs3216

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).

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)MXM-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 amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed790 MHz792 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.28 GB/s25.34 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 September 2009 25 October 2008
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 23 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 4670 Mac Edition has an age advantage of 10 months.

9600M GT Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 52.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition and GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 Mac Edition
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