GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce 9500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+844%
907
GeForce 9500 GT
96
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
7
SM Count
4
336
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
96.00 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
G96
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
