GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and GeForce MX250 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
GeForce MX250
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
G94
N17S-G2
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2008
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1582 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
1518 MHz
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
384
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
10/25 Watt
Texture fill rate
19.20
24.91
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
17.02 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2