GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and GeForce 7900 GX2 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
GeForce 7900 GX2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G94
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2008
April 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
19.20
12.00
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
17.02 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A