NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
FireStream 9250
+1011%
1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
RV770
-
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
