AMD FirePro 2270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro 2270 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro 2270

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 5.8x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 103 MHz
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
  • Around 40% better floating-point performance: 96 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 142 vs 131
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 173 vs 58
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 31 January 2011 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 103 MHz
Pipelines 80 vs 32
Floating-point performance 96 gflops vs 68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 142 vs 131
PassMark - G2D Mark 173 vs 58

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

  • Around 43% higher texture fill rate: 6.88 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1798 vs 1231
  • Around 46% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1798 vs 1231
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 6.88 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1798 vs 1231
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1798 vs 1231

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro 2270
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
142
131
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
173
58
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1231
1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1231
1798
Name AMD FirePro 2270 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 142 131
PassMark - G2D Mark 173 58
Geekbench - OpenCL 2564
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.145
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 9.382
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 539
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 539
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1231 1798
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1231 1798

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro 2270 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Code name Cedar G96
Launch date 31 January 2011 3 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1541 1543
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 103 MHz
Floating-point performance 96 gflops 68.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 80 32
Texture fill rate 4.8 GTexel / s 6.88 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 292 million 314 million
CUDA cores 32

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DMS-59 No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 9.6 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

PCI-E 2.0