GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVS 4200M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1158not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.06no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGF119G96C
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date22 February 2011 (13 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 cores4832
Core clock speed810 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors292 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate6.4808.000
Floating-point processing power0.1555 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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXMMXM-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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz792 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 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.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.11.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2011 25 October 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 23 Watt

NVS 4200M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

9600M GT Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 8.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between NVS 4200M and GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 4200M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA NVS 4200M
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