NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9370
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 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 FireStream 9370 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FireStream 9370
+1275%
2.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1600
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 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
66.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
225W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Cypress
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
334 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
