NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 95W)

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260 +1645%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

95W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Bonaire

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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