NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs AMD FirePro S9170

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 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 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +3257%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

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FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Jul 2015

GeForce 9

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

48

Shading Units

2816

24

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Hawaii

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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