NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V8600

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Lower TDP (50W vs 159W)

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600 +388%

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

159W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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