NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD FirePro V5900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900 +120%

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

FirePro V5900

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 9

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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