NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 130W)

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +1901%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

130W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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