GeForce 9500 GT and Radeon HD 2900 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9500 GT vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce 9500 GT
162
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce 9500 GT
Radeon HD 2900 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G96
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
743 MHz
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
89.6 gflops
475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
320
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
215 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
8.8 billion/sec
11.89
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
1656 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
106.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A