NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe 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 A40 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1740MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
10688 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A40 PCIe
+19389%
37.42 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Dec 2008
Tesla
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1305 MHz
Base Clock
-
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1812 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
695.8GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
84
SM Count
8
10752
Shading Units
64
336
TMUs
32
112
ROPs
16
336
Tensor Cores
-
84
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
194.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
37.42 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
300W
TDP
95W
700 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
628 mm²
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
