NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1632 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +4800%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

32

104

TMUs

16

56

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G96C

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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