AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 280 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +3700%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G96

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

Board Design

200W

TDP

40W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x 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 (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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