GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs FirePro M4100
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M4100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro M4100 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
FirePro M4100
+542%
514
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
8
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.360 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.08 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
514.6 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
32.16 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Mars
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Mars M2 PRO/LP
(216-0842009)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)