Radeon PRO W7700 vs GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated61
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data56.20
Power efficiencyno data18.29
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG96CNavi 32
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date25 October 2008 (16 years ago)13 November 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores323072
Core clock speed500 MHz1900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2600 MHz
Number of transistors314 million28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt190 Watt
Texture fill rate8.000499.2
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS31.95 TFLOPS
ROPs896
TMUs16192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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-IIPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed792 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.34 GB/s576.0 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 outputs4x DisplayPort 2.1

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.2
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 October 2008 13 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 190 Watt

9600M GT Mac Edition has 726.1% lower power consumption.

PRO W7700, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1000% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and Radeon PRO W7700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition is a notebook card while Radeon PRO W7700 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
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