NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 250W)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
2240 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+2883%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
16GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
2304
32
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
250W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
