Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce 9500 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce 9500 GS
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce 9500 GS
193
Radeon HD 7850
GeForce 9500 GS
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
G96
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
July 2008
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
32
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
55.04
8.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
16.13 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-