AMD Radeon Sky 700 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 700

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon Sky 700 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 Sky 700 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 700 +3565%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 700

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/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

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

40W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G96

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

352 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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