NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M6000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 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
Lower TDP (23W vs 43W)
AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
FirePro M6000
+1180%
1.024 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jul 2012
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1024 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
43W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Heathrow
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
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
