AMD FirePro M2000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M2000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M2000 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M2000
+500%
0.48 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2012
Release Date
Oct 2008
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
25.34GB/s
Render Config
6
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
480
Shading Units
32
24
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.000 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
480.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
33W
TDP
23W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
Turks
GPU Name
G96C
Turks GL
GPU Variant
NB9P-GS
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.716 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
