GeForce 7900 GTX and GeForce 9500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 7900 GTX vs GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 7900 GTX
399
GeForce 9500 GT
162
GeForce 7900 GTX
GeForce 9500 GT
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G71
G96
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2006
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
650 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
32
Floating-point performance
-
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
32
Power consumption (TDP)
84 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
15.60
8.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A