NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro RG220
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 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
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+140%
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro RG220
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro RG
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
1
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
80
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
35W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
M93
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
73 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
