NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G96 G96C
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry UMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 314 million 314 million
Die size 144 mm² 121 mm²
GPU variant G96-875-C1

Graphics Card

Release date Jul 29th, 2008 Apr 9th, 2009
Generation GeForce 9 Quadro FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 22 in our database 26 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 200
Launch price 199 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 450 MHz
Shader clock 1500 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 32.00 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 4.800 GPixel/s 3.600 GPixel/s
Texture rate 9.600 GTexel/s 7.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 96.00 GFLOPS 72.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 50 W 40 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI2x DisplayPort
Power connectors None None
Length 198 mm 7.8 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Board number P788

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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