
GeForce 9600 GT and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94
M98
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
August 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
503 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
804.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
800
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
20.12
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A