NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock967MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
1312 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 870M
+4160%
2.599 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500M GS
0.061 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 800M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
941 MHz
Base Clock
-
967 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
120.0GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
1344
Shading Units
32
112
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.800 GPixel/s
108.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.599 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
60.80 GFLOPS
108.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
20W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G84
N15E-GT-A2
GPU Variant
NB9P-GE1-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
