GeForce 9500 GS and Radeon HD 8490 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 9500 GS
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G96
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
July 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
550 MHz
875 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
160
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
7.000
Memory type
DDR2
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1008 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.13 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A