NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W7100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 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)
AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro W7100
+1617%
3.297 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 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1792
32
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.44 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
103.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.297 TFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.297 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
206.1 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
Tonga
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tonga PRO GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
5 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
366 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
