AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 139.19
$ 109.00
$ 30.19 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points
25244% significantly better overall score
9 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s
700% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W
50 W
269% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s
793% significantly higher pixel rate
4.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s
1910% significantly higher texture rate
9.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
7099% significantly more shading units
32

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
800% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
300% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

191st of 586
569th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
3.3

Radeon RX 580 vs GeForce 9500 GT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 580 beats the GeForce 9500 GT in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce 9500 GT has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 is better than the GeForce 9500 GT.

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