AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 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

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790 +1580%

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 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

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

40W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G96C

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

121 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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