ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +1150%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G96B

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

G96-309-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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