GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs Radeon E6465

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1203not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.64no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameCaicosG94
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 September 2015 (9 years ago)22 December 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 cores16064
Core clock speed600 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors370 million505 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt95 Watt
Texture fill rate4.80019.20
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPS0.192 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs832

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 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz266 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 September 2015 22 December 2008
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 95 Watt

Radeon E6465 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 280% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E6465 and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon E6465 is a notebook card while GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition is a desktop one.


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