AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +2922%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G96C

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

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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