NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 95W)
AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260
+1606%
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 9
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
Bonaire
-
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
