NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W2100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W2100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W2100 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock680MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (26W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro W2100
+126%
0.435 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Aug 2014
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
630 MHz
-
Boost Clock
680 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
5
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
20
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.440 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
435.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
27.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
26W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Oland
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
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
