HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) and GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge)
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Sandy Bridge
G96C
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2011
May 2010
Interface
-
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
-
Core clock speed
350 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
-
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6
32
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
8.800
Memory type
-
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
-
512 MB
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
-
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
-
1.1
OpenGL
-
3.3
Shader Model
-
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A