NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro V5900
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro V5900
+219%
0.614 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
512
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.20 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
614.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
153.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Cayman
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman LE WS
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
