AMD Radeon R3 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R3 Graphics 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• 4x more pipelines: 128 vs 32
• 2.5x better floating-point performance: 153.6 gflops vs 60.8 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
• Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 308 vs 134
• Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 94 vs 59
• Around 66% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1745 vs 1053
• Around 66% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1745 vs 1053

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

• 3.6x more core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 267 MHz
• Around 58% higher texture fill rate: 7.6 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R3 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	308 134
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	94 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1745 1053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1745 1053

Compare specifications (specs)