AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 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 M8900 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
928 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+1532%
1.306 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Oct 2008
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
960
Shading Units
32
48
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
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-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
23W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
G96C
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
