GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 6290
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6290 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6290
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6290 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G96C () | vs | Cedar (Cedar LE) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 121 mm² | vs | 59 mm² |
| Transistors | 314 million | vs | 292 million |
| Shaders | 32 | vs | 80 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 550 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6290 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6290 | |
|---|
| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 19 May 2010 | vs | 4 Dec 2011 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better