AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +6529%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce 9500 GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 2008

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

504 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.13GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G96

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

G96-259-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

UMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

40W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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