NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro W5000 DVI
+559%
1.267 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Feb 2013
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
768
32
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Pitcairn
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
212 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
