NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W9100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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 275W)
AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
2752 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
FirePro W9100
+2628%
5.238 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Mar 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
16GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
2816
32
TMUs
176
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.52 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
163.7 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.238 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
2.619 TFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
275W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Hawaii
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii GL44
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
438 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
