GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs 9600 GT Mac Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated179
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.41
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG94TU106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date22 December 2008 (15 years ago)29 January 2019 (5 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 cores641920
Core clock speed600 MHz960 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors505 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate19.20144.0
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPS4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs32120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length229 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed266 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth17.02 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors2x DVINo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model4.06.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2008 29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 115 Watt

9600 GT Mac Edition has 21.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 441.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
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