ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 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 3850 X3 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 145W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X3 +386%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

145W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G96

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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