AMD FirePro S10000 Passive vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro S10000 Passive NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 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 S10000 Passive 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S10000 Passive +1673%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Dec 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti PRO 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

Board Design

375W

TDP

95W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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