NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 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 106W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition +464%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

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Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jun 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

1126 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/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

12.43 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

106W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

RV670

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

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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