AMD FirePro W5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 84W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +379%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

768

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

84W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G92

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 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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