AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

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

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +3583%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

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

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

828.8 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

-

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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