AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6490

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490 +266%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

VS

GeForce 9500 GT

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G96

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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