NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

208 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT +200%

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

32

Shading Units

240

16

TMUs

12

8

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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