GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs 9500 GT Mac Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated5
Place by popularitynot in top-10061
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data38.30
Power efficiencyno data19.06
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG96CAD103
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 May 2010 (14 years ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3210240
Core clock speed550 MHz2295 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2550 MHz
Number of transistors314 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate8.800816.0
Floating-point processing power0.0896 TFLOPS52.22 TFLOPS
ROPs8112
TMUs16320
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length145 mm310 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount512 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1438 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s736.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.18.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 May 2010 8 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 320 Watt

9500 GT Mac Edition has 540% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 SUPER, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1000% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
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