NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +3846%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 9

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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