NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G96C G98
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 55 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 314 million 210 million
Die size 121 mm² 86 mm²
GPU variant G98-309-U2

Graphics Card

Release date May 19th, 2010 Mar 10th, 2009
Generation GeForce 9 GeForce 100
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 22 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8 GeForce 9
Successor GeForce 200 GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 550 MHz 540 MHz
Shader clock 1400 MHz 1300 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 25.60 GB/s 6.400 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 32 8
TMUs 16 4
ROPs 8 4
SM count 4 1
Cache L2 32 KB 16 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 4.400 GPixel/s 2.160 GPixel/s
Texture rate 8.800 GTexel/s 2.160 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 89.60 GFLOPS 20.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 50 W 35 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number P561

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

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