AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

2528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +5410%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

32

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G96

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

40W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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