GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs Quadro M5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	263	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	9.47	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	GM204	G96C
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Release date	8 April 2016 (8 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 cores	2048	32
Core clock speed	1140 MHz	500 MHz
Boost clock speed	1165 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	5,200 million	314 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	23 Watt
Texture fill rate	149.1	8.000
Floating-point processing power	4.772 TFLOPS	0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	8
TMUs	128	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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data
SLI options	+	-

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	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1753 MHz	792 MHz
Memory bandwidth	211 GB/s	25.34 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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	No outputs	No outputs
Display Port	1.2	no data
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

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

3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
VR Ready	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	6.4	4.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	+	N/A
CUDA	+	1.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	8 April 2016	25 October 2008
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	23 Watt

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