AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

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AMD Radeon HD 6990 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990 +2733%

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

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GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

32

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

G96C

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

G96-300-C1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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