NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro D500

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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

Lower TDP (95W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro D500 +1059%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

266 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

64

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Tahiti

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE 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

Board Design

95W

TDP

274W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

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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