AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 250X NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X +1251%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

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GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

May 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G96C

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

50W

250 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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