NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170 +452%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

105W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

RV670

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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