ATI FireMV 2250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 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 FireMV 2250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 95W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Dec 2008
FireMV Multi-View
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
-
Shading Units
64
4
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
32W
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV516
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
R500
Architecture
Tesla
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.107 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
