Radeon HD 8790M and GeForce 9500 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8790M vs GeForce 9500 GT
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
GeForce 9500 GT
162
Radeon HD 8790M
GeForce 9500 GT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
G96
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
July 2008
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
32
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
32
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
21.60
8.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A