NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireMV 2250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 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 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
FireMV Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
32W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV516
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
