Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
2240 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+2883%
5728
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Dec 2008
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
2304
Shading Units
64
144
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
95W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
G94
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Tesla
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
