GeForce 9500 GT vs Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

Place in the ranking	383	1248
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.67	0.59
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	Amethyst	G96
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	23 November 2014 (10 years ago)	29 July 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$85.99

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 cores	2048	32
Core clock speed	850 MHz	550 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	314 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	no data	105 °C
Texture fill rate	108.8	9.600
Floating-point processing power	3.482 TFLOPS	0.096 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	8
TMUs	128	16

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).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	175 mm
Height	no data	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	-	+

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1362 MHz	800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Memory bandwidth	174.3 GB/s	25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)

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 Connectors	No outputs	Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support	no data	+
HDMI	-	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	no data	S/PDIF

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	6.3	4.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	-	+

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	13.39	0.43
Recency	23 November 2014	29 July 2008
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	50 Watt

R9 M295X Mac Edition has a 3014% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

9500 GT, on the other hand, has 400% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce 9500 GT in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is a notebook card while GeForce 9500 GT is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.