ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 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 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 145W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X3 +375%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

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

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/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)

89.60 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

145W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G96C

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

G96-300-C1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

121 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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