GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh

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
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameTU104BG94
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date8 June 2020 (4 years ago)22 December 2008 (15 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 cores307264
Core clock speed1035 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,600 million505 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt95 Watt
Texture fill rate296.619.20
Floating-point processing power9.492 TFLOPS0.192 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs19232
Tensor Cores384no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

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 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR6DDR2
Maximum RAM amount16 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz266 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s17.02 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 outputs2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.54.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.140N/A
CUDA7.51.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2020 22 December 2008
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 95 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 441.7% more advanced lithography process.

9600 GT Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 15.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation card while GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh
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