NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +2990%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Cypress

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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