AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +1035%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

0.08 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

40W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G96C

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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