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AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 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 3 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (90W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FirePro D500 +1327%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
0.156 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2014
Release Date
Oct 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz

Memory

3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s

Render Config

24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1536
Shading Units
48
96
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

274W
TDP
90W
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
G94
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
240 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
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