NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 127W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 +1450%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 9

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

32

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

127W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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