GeForce 9500 GT vs Radeon HD 6230

GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT
Radeon HD 6230
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6230

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6230

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 6230
GPU NameG96C ()vsCedar (Cedar LE)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size121 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors314 millionvs292 million
Shaders32vs80
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs2
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 6230
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR2
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 6230
TDP50 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date29 Jul 2008vs2 Jul 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    1.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    8.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6230
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better