ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 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
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Lower TDP (95W vs 159W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
+129%
0.44 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Dec 2008
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
DDR2
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
320
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
159W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
G94
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
