ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (40W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO +336%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

40W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

G96

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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