NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +5088%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

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GeForce 9500 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G96

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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