NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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 225W)
AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro W8000
+1580%
3.226 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1792
32
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
225W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Tahiti
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO 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
