FireStream 9250 vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+420%
1000
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Dec 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
800
Shading Units
64
40
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
G94
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0