ATI FirePro V7900 SDI vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 SDI 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
ATI FirePro V7900 SDI 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro V7900 SDI
+866%
1.856 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Dec 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1280
Shading Units
64
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.856 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cayman
GPU Name
G94
Cayman PRO GL
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale 3
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
240 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
