NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro 2260 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FirePro 2260 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 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
ATI FirePro 2260 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+380%
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro 2260 PCI
0.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
40
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
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
40.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
15W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV620
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
