NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro S9100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 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 225W)
AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro S9100
+2097%
4.219 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Oct 2014
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
2560
32
TMUs
160
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
52.74 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
131.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.219 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
2.109 TFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
225W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Hawaii
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii GL40
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
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
