NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M3900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M3900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
AMD FirePro M3900 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 23W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
FirePro M3900
+200%
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
160
16
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.000 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
23W
TDP
20W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Seymour
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Seymour GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
67 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
