FirePro S7000 vs GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1184 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S7000
+774%
2432
GeForce 9600 GTX
278
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
May 2009
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1280
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
G92
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0