AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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 FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (95W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+158%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Dec 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
320
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
95W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
