ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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ATI FireGL V8600

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 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

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (95W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600 +129%

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Dec 2008

FireGL

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

320

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

159W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

G94

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

240 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

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