AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+743%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GSO
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1536
Shading Units
96
96
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
84W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G92
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
