NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W4000

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition AMD FirePro W4000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000 +559%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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FirePro W4000

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

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

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

64

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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