NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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

Lower TDP (50W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +4255%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1664

16

TMUs

104

8

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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