GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs FirePro W5170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W5170M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
FirePro W5170M
+1380%
1184
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Aug 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.80 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.00 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1184 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
74.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Tropo
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Tropo XT
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
2.1 (1.2)
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)