NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.13GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 40W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM +127%

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

40W

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Caicos

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

67 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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