AMD Radeon R5 M420 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Jet G94
GPU variant Jet PRO (216-0568010) G94-300-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 690 million 505 million
Die size 56 mm² 240 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date May 15th, 2016
Generation Crystal System (R5 M400)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Predecessor Solar System
Successor Mobility Radeon

Clocks

Base clock 780 MHz
Boost clock 850 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective 266 MHz 532 Mbps effective
GPU clock 600 MHz
Shader clock 1500 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 1024 MB
Memory type DDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 16.00 GB/s 17.02 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 320 64
TMUs 20 32
ROPs 8 16
Compute units 5
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 128 KB 64 KB
SM count 8

Performance

Pixel rate 6.800 GPixel/s 9.600 GPixel/s
Texture rate 17.00 GTexel/s 19.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 544.0 GFLOPS 192.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 34.00 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width IGP Single-slot
TDP unknown 95 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI
Length 229 mm 9 inches
Suggested PSU 250 W
Power connectors 1x 6-pin

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 5.1 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 22nd, 2008
Generation GeForce 9
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 151 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 200

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