NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro 2260 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM FirePro 2260 PCI 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 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
ATI FirePro 2260 PCI 's Advantages
8 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (15W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
+125%
0.09 TFLOPS
FirePro 2260 PCI
0.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
8.000GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
40
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
40.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
15W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DisplayPort
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
RV620
-
-
-
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
