AMD Radeon HD 6490 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon HD 6490 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 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

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 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490 +266%

0.352 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490

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GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

352.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G96B

Redwood LE

GPU Variant

G96-309-B1

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

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 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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