AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

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AMD Radeon HD 7850 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +1734%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

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GeForce 9500 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jul 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G96

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

50W

300 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 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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