NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 85W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 +1296%

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 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

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

85W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Tahiti

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

352 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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