NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +4563%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

40W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Tonga

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

5 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

366 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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