AMD FirePro M6000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro M6000

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 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 M6000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 43W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M6000 +1180%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

FirePro M6000

VS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2012

Release Date

Oct 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

43W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

G96C

Heathrow XT GL (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

121 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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