NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V8800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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
Lower TDP (50W vs 208W)
ATI FirePro V8800 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1568 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
FirePro V8800
+2833%
2.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Apr 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1600
16
TMUs
80
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
208W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Cypress
-
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
