AMD Radeon HD 6950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 6950 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950 +2460%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Dec 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

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1408

Shading Units

32

88

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

70.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

2.253 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

563.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

40W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

G96

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

389 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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