NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro V7900
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 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 150W)
ATI FirePro V7900 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro V7900
+866%
1.856 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1280
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.856 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Cayman
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
