NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
928 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
FirePro M8900
+1532%
1.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
960
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
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-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Blackcomb
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
212 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
