AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
170.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB

Launch date	27 August 2015 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	4096 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

7x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 175 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 Nano
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Name	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4579
PassMark - G2D Mark		320
PassMark - G3D Mark		104

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0
Code name	Fiji	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Design	AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch date	27 August 2015	9 January 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	502	505
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Compute units	64
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	4096	24
Stream Processors	4096
Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	8,900 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays	6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12	10.0
Mantle
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz
Memory type	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory	0	1
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore