FirePro M5800 and GeForce 9600 GSO 512 - video card comparison
FirePro M5800
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Madison
G94
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
March 2010
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
6-pin
SLI options
-
2-way
Core clock speed
650 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
520.0 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
48
Power consumption (TDP)
26 Watt
90 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
13.00
15.6 billion/sec
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A