AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

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AMD Radeon HD 7870M NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M +2460%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500M G

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

VS

GeForce 9500M G

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

London

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

G96

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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