AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+701%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
May 2009
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1536
Shading Units
96
96
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
140W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
