AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M 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 W6170M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W6170M
+2363%
1.971 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Oct 2008
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
896
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
23W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Emerald
GPU Name
G96C
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
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
