Radeon HD 6790 vs GeForce 9500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 6790 Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9500 GT Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6790
+1300%
1344
GeForce 9500 GT
96
Graphics Card
Apr 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
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
800
Shading Units
32
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
13.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
1344 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
96.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Barts
GPU Name
G96
Barts LE
(215-0798002)
(215-0798002)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
255 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
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
