AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • 64x more pipelines: 1536 vs 24
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 65 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines 1536 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 125 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Name AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Geekbench - OpenCL 42817
PassMark - G2D Mark 320
PassMark - G3D Mark 104

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0
Code name Navi 14 MCP79Mx + NB9M
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 9 January 2008
Place in performance rating 507 506
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1757 MHz
Compute units 24
Core clock speed 1187 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 65 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1536 24
Pixel fill rate 56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Width IGP

API support

DirectX 12.1 10.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 1