Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce 9500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce 9500 GT
Radeon HD 5870
2282
GeForce 9500 GT
162
Radeon HD 5870
GeForce 9500 GT
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Cypress
G96
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
850 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
32
Floating-point performance
2,720.0 gflops
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1600
32
Power consumption (TDP)
188 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
68.00
8.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A