NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 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 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500M GS

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand +1998%

1.28 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500M GS

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Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Broadway

NB9P-GE1-A2

GPU Variant

Broadway XT

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

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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