NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon Sky 900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

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

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900 +3769%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon Sky 900

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

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

28

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Tahiti

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Orthrus

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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