ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT 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 32.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition +417%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9500 GT

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

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/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

4.800 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G96

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GPU Variant

-

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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