NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M7740
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M7740 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 60W)
AMD FirePro M7740 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.14GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
FirePro M7740
+940%
0.832 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Aug 2009
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobility
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
792 MHz
Memory Clock
846 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
54.14GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
640
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
832.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
166.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
M97
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
M97XT-GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.826 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
137 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
