AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +2940%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

40W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G96C

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 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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