NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive +2082%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1792

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Tahiti

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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