ATI Radeon HD 4350 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4350 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4350

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 80 vs 32
  • Around 7% better floating-point performance: 96 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 / 512 MB
Launch date 30 September 2008 vs 29 July 2008
Pipelines 80 vs 32
Floating-point performance 96 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 256 / 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 83% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 166 vs 143
  • Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 32 vs 28
  • Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1505 vs 894
  • Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1505 vs 894
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1400 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.8 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 166 vs 143
PassMark - G2D Mark 32 vs 28
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1505 vs 894
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1505 vs 894

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4350
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
143
166
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
28
32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
894
1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
894
1505
Name ATI Radeon HD 4350 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 143 166
PassMark - G2D Mark 28 32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 894 1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 894 1505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 0.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 56.838

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 4350 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Code name RV710 G96C
Launch date 30 September 2008 29 July 2008
Place in performance rating 1666 1667
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $85.99
Price now $85.99
Value for money (0-100) 4.13

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 1400 MHz
Floating-point performance 96 gflops 89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 80 32
Texture fill rate 4.8 GTexel / s 8.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 242 million 314 million
CUDA cores 32
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 6.875" (17.5 cm)

API support

DirectX 10.1 10.0
OpenGL 3.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 / 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 6.4 GB / s 25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3

Technologies

CUDA
SLI