AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +2190%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

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

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1120

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

40W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 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 Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G96

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

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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