ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 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

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition +521%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/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

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G96C

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

-

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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