NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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
Lower TDP (95W vs 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
+1059%
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
274W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Tahiti
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
