ATI FirePro V9800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 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 V9800 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro V9800
+1316%
2.72 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2010
Release Date
Dec 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1600
Shading Units
64
80
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
95W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G94
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
334 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
