NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590 +1282%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

365W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G96C

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

520 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

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