AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

AMD FirePro D500 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +701%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

May 2009

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

140W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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