AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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 FireStream 9270 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
+525%
1.2 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Dec 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
800
Shading Units
64
40
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
G94
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
