NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 6 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 69W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
+185%
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
12
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
69W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GT215
-
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
