Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1760 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+3615%
3344
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
90
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
May 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1792
Shading Units
32
112
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G96C
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0