NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
+1110%
1.089 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
837 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
320bit
Memory Bus
128bit
133.9GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
14
SM Count
4
448
Shading Units
32
56
TMUs
16
40
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
640 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.02 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
34.05 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1089 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
G96C
GT215-400-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
