NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

ATI Radeon HD 3470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.13GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3470 's Advantages

8 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 40W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS +37%

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3470

0.064 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon HD 3470

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

15.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

40

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

64.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

40W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

RV620

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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