NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +430%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

4

192

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

8

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G96C

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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