NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 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 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Lower TDP (95W vs 159W)
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
+129%
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
159W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
R600
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
240 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
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
