NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost 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 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +3583%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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