AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W9000 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +1980%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Dec 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

64

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

95W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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