GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs Radeon R5 235 OEM

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	Caicos	G96C
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	21 December 2013 (10 years ago)	19 May 2010 (13 years ago)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	160	32
Core clock speed	775 MHz	550 MHz
Number of transistors	370 million	314 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	6.200	8.800
Floating-point performance	248.0 gflops	89.6 gflops

Size and 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	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	145 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

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	DDR3	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB/s	25.6 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	5.0	4.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	no data	1.1

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	21 December 2013	19 May 2010
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	50 Watt

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