NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireMV 2400 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM FireMV 2400 PCI 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 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI FireMV 2400 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
FireMV Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.000 GTexel/s
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-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
20W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x VHDCI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV380
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Rage 9
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.075 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
92 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0
3.3
OpenGL
2.0
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
