GeForce 9500 GT vs Radeon HD 6950

GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT
Radeon HD 6950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6950

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9500 GT

150 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6950 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6950

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6950

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 6950
GPU NameG96C ()vsCayman (Cayman PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size121 mm²vs389 mm²
Transistors314 millionvs2,640 million
Shaders32vs1408
Compute Units2vs22
Core clock550 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs88

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 6950
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 6950
TDP50 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date29 Jul 2008vs14 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6950
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6950
    70.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6950
    160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6950
    2253.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better