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GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

The GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 features a clock frequency of 550 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 800 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is made up of 32 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M295X, which has a core clock speed of 750 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1375 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 50 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X 125 Watts
Difference: 75 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M295X should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 176000 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 25600 MB/sec
Difference: 150400 (588%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X is quite a bit (more or less 991%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 96000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 8800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 87200 (991%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M295X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 24000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 19600 (445%)

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 R9 M295X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 2014
Code Name G96b Unknown
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 25600 MB/sec 176000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8800 Mtexels/sec 96000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 24000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 2048
Texture Mapping Units 16 128
Render Output Units 8 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 314 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0, PCI PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3

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Radeon R9 M295X

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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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