NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V3600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
56 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (73W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+33%
0.192 TFLOPS
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
120
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
73W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV630
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
