NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 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

Lower TDP (40W vs 165W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.66GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2 +500%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

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

901 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/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

13.20 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

R680

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

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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