AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
32.9x more texture fill rate: 2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 7.6 GTexel / s
70x more pipelines: 2x 1120 vs 32
66.3x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,016.0 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2x 1 GB vs 512 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 700 MHz

Launch date	8 July 2011 vs 1 February 2008
Texture fill rate	2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 7.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1120 vs 32
Floating-point performance	2x 2,016.0 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz vs 700 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Around 6% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 900 MHz
15x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 300 Watt

Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 900 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.807
PassMark - G3D Mark		134
PassMark - G2D Mark		59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1053

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Barts	G84
Launch date	8 July 2011	1 February 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$520
Place in performance rating	1607	1604
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	950 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 2,016.0 gflops	60.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	2x 1120	32
Texture fill rate	2x 50.4 GTexel / s billion / sec	7.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	289 million
CUDA cores		32
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	304 mm
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 134.4 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4200 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory		0