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GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

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

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M265, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 725 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M265 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265 32000 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 25600 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M265 should be quite a bit (approximately 98%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265 17400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 8800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8600 (98%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M265 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265 5800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1400 (32%)

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 M265
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 May 1 2014
Code Name G96b Opal XT
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 725 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 25600 MB/sec 32000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8800 Mtexels/sec 17400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 5800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 384
Texture Mapping Units 16 24
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 314 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0, PCI PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3

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Radeon R7 M265

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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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