Radeon RX 7700 XT vs GeForce 9500M GE

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated40
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data70.65
Power efficiencyno data16.37
Architectureno dataRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameMCP79Mx + NB9MNavi 32
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date9 January 2008 (16 years ago)25 August 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$449

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 cores243456
Core clock speedno data1435 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2544 MHz
Number of transistorsno data28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt245 Watt
Texture fill rateno data549.5
Floating-point processing powerno data35.17 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data216
Ray Tracing Coresno data54

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-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 typeGDDR2, GDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data432.0 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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.2
Vulkan-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 January 2008 25 August 2023
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 245 Watt

9500M GE has 880% lower power consumption.

RX 7700 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9500M GE and Radeon RX 7700 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9500M GE is a notebook card while Radeon RX 7700 XT is a desktop one.


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