Radeon HD 2900 XT and GeForce 9500 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 2900 XT vs GeForce 9500 GS
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce 9500 GS
193
Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce 9500 GS
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R600
G96
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2007
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
743 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
475.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
720 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
32
Power consumption (TDP)
215 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.89
8.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
106.0 GB/s
16.13 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A