GeForce 9500 GT and Radeon HD 3100 - video card comparison

GeForce 9500 GT

Radeon HD 3100

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

RV6xx (2007−2010)

GPU code name

G96

RS780MC

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

July 2008

August 2008

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

550 MHz

350 MHz

CUDA cores

32

-

Floating-point performance

89.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

314 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

40

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

8.8 billion/sec

-

Memory type

GDDR3

-

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

-

Memory clock speed

800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz

-

Memory bandwidth

25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)

-

Shared memory

-

+

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI

-

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

-

OpenGL

2.1

-

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

-