NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
3.5x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 billion / sec vs 8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 65 Watt

Launch date	29 July 2008 vs 11 August 2005
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 billion / sec vs 8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 65 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 244 vs 172
8.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 273 vs 32

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	244 vs 172
PassMark - G2D Mark	273 vs 32

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

244

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

273

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	172	244
PassMark - G2D Mark	32	273
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	56.838
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1505

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Curie
Code name	G96C	G70
Launch date	29 July 2008	11 August 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$85.99	$449
Place in performance rating	1666	624
Price now	$85.99	$80
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	4.13	3.16
Technical info
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	32
Texture fill rate	8.8 billion / sec	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	302 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	S / PDIF
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	6.875" (17.5 cm)	226 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0c
OpenGL	2.1	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 / 512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Technologies
CUDA
SLI