AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+1059%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Dec 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1536
Shading Units
64
96
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
95W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
-
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
