AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon Sky 900 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900 +4156%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

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GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jul 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G96C

Orthrus

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

40W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-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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