GeForce 9500 GT vs Radeon HD 8490 OEM

GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT
Radeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Jul 2013
Radeon HD 8490 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8490 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8490 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 8490 OEM
GPU NameG96C ()vsCaicos (Caicos XTX)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size121 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors314 millionvs370 million
Shaders32vs160
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs875 MHz
ROPs8vs4
TMUs16vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 8490 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9500 GTRadeon HD 8490 OEM
TDP50 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date29 Jul 2008vs23 Jul 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    3.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    7.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8490 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better