NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +2954%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

180W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Curacao

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

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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