AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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 6850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +1450%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jul 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

127W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G96B

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G96-309-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

255 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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