NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 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
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1770MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (200.1GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+2259%
4.531 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Dec 2008
Quadro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
8
1280
Shading Units
64
40
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
60W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
Unknown
Transistors
0.505 billion
Unknown
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
