GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1288not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameM92G96C
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date9 January 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 cores8032
Core clock speed500 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors242 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data23 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0008.000
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs816

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-IIMXM-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 amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz792 MHz
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/s25.34 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 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 9 January 2009 25 October 2008

ATI Mobility HD 4530 has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 4530 and GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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