FirePro S7000 vs GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S7000
+1069%
2432
GeForce 9600 GT
208
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Feb 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1280
Shading Units
64
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
G94
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
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