AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 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 M8900 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +1532%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Oct 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G96C

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 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

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