AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Sky 500 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: 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).

AMD Radeon Sky 500

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 500

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
53.3x more pipelines: 1280 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
45.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4709 vs 104
Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 572 vs 320

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 March 2013 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	1280 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4709 vs 104
PassMark - G2D Mark	572 vs 320

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Sky 500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4709

104

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

572

320

Name	AMD Radeon Sky 500	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G3D Mark	4709	104
PassMark - G2D Mark	572	320
Geekbench - OpenCL	74902
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	54.669
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1096.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.352
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	89.633
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	247.642
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5116
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	5116

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Sky 500	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0
Code name	Pitcairn	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Launch date	27 March 2013	9 January 2008
Place in performance rating	506	537
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1280	24
Texture fill rate	76 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	1
Dual-link DVI support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Form factor	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	242 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	154 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		1