GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs FirePro M4000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)
FirePro M4000 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
FirePro M4000
+763%
691
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.80 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
21.60 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
691.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
43.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
33W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Chelsea
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Chelsea XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
123 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
