NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 140W)

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.99GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2 +386%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 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

828 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

RV670

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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