NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs AMD FirePro M4000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 33W)
AMD FirePro M4000 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GS
0.069 TFLOPS
FirePro M4000
+901%
0.691 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
512
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.440 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.80 GPixel/s
6.880 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
21.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
68.80 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
691.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
43.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
33W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Chelsea
NB9P-GE2
GPU Variant
Chelsea XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
