NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.13GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 40W)

Score

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon X1550 PCI

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

4.256GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

4

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.808 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.808 GTexel/s

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

40W

TDP

27W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

RV516

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

R500

UMC

Foundry

UMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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