NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 8 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 188W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +2922%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 9

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

188W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Cypress

-

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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