Radeon HD 4850 vs GeForce 9500 GT
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT |
| 60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4850 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4850
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce 9500 GT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV770 (RV770 PRO) | vs | G96C () |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 121 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 314 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 32 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 625 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce 9500 GT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 993 MHz
1986 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4850 | | GeForce 9500 GT | |
|---|
| TDP | 110 watts | vs | 50 watts |
| Release Date | 25 Jun 2008 | vs | 29 Jul 2008 |
Radeon HD 4850
10.00 GP/s
GeForce 9500 GT
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
25.00 GT/s
GeForce 9500 GT
8.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
63.60 GB/s
GeForce 9500 GT
25.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850
1000.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 9500 GT
89.60 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better