NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 +2000%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

VS

Radeon HD 6870

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

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

32

Shading Units

1120

16

TMUs

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

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

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 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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