NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M G and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500M G

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +5340%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500M G

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 9M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

40.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Wimbledon

NB9P-GE

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

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

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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