AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 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 R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 260 OEM +2090%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

896

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G96C

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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