AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition +3085%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jul 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1792

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G96C

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

G96-300-C1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

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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