AMD Ellesmere
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
AMD Ellesmere
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
1086
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Value for money (0-100)
1.81
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Tesla
Ellesmere
Code name
G96
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
29 July 2008 (13 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$85.99
$49
Price now
$141 (1.6x MSRP)
Ellesmere
GPU code name
G96
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

2304
Pipelines
32
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Core clock speed
550 MHz
5,700 million
Transistor count
314 million
14 nm
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
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Texture fill rate
8.8 billion/sec
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Floating-point performance
89.6 gflops
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Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
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CUDA cores
32
2304
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
5,700 million
Number of transistors
314 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
50 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT.

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

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT can be seen in this section.

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

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
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Multi monitor support
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
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HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT is the additional functionality.

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CUDA
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Ellesmere and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Ellesmere or NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Ellesmere
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Ellesmere
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Ellesmere
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Ellesmere
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Ellesmere
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Ellesmere

Cheaper ($49 vs $141 (1.6x MSRP))

More pipelines (2304 vs 32)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 65 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

0.59% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Ellesmere or NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT .

AMD Ellesmere versus NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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