Radeon HD 5470 vs GeForce 9500 GT

Radeon HD 5470
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 5470
GeForce 9500 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jul 2008
GeForce 9500 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5470

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

No clear winner declared

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5470GeForce 9500 GT
GPU NameCedar (Cedar PRO)vsG96C ()
Fab Process40 nmvs55 nm
Die Size59 mm²vs121 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs314 million
Shaders80vs32
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs8vs16

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5470GeForce 9500 GT
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5470GeForce 9500 GT
TDP19 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2012vs29 Jul 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5470
    2.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5470
    5.20 GT/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5470
    6.40 GB/s
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5470
    104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9500 GT
    89.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better