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GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 comes with core clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 32 SPUs along with 16 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 50 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (120%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 25600 MB/sec
Difference: 153600 (600%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is quite a bit (about 609%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 8800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 53600 (609%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 26800 (609%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 June 2015
Code Name G96b Trinidad
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 25600 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8800 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 1024
Texture Mapping Units 16 64
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 314 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0, PCI PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3

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Radeon R7 370 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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