NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M GS and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 110W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500M GS

0.061 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 +591%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500M GS

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 9M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

110W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

M88

NB9P-GE1-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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