ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Lower TDP (50W vs 159W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
+388%
0.44 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
May 2010
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
128bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
320
Shading Units
32
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
159W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
G96C
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
