HD Graphics 3000 and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
HD Graphics 3000
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
G94
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
February 2011
December 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1350 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
20.4 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
995 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
12
64
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
13.80
19.20
Memory type
System Shared
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
System Shared
1 GB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
System Shared
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
17.02 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A