GeForce 9600 GSO and Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GSO
Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G92
Seymour
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2008
May 2011
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
2-way
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
750 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
160
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
26.4 billion/sec
6.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
384 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
3176 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
25.41 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A