AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM +891%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Jul 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

930 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G96B

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

G96-309-B1

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

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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