ATI Radeon HD 5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5950 +2220%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

0.09 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1440

Shading Units

32

72

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

302W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

G96C

Hemlock PRO

GPU Variant

G96-300-C1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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