NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM +957%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

930 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G96-300-C1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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