NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W4300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro W4300
+643%
1.428 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Dec 2015
GeForce 9
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
768
32
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.88 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.64 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1428 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
89.28 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Bonaire
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
160 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
