AMD FirePro M6100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M6100 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M6100 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M6100
+1963%
1.651 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Oct 2008
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
88.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
768
Shading Units
32
48
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.651 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
23W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Saturn
GPU Name
G96C
Saturn XT GL
(216-0843006)
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.5
Shader Model
4.0
