NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +2700%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

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Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

96.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 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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