Video cards stacked with memory from the Dutch master
Club3D has also endowed the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT and ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 1GB of memory.
The low-end NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT and the low-mid range ATI Radeon HD 4670 were also treated by the Dutch Club3D, as a result of which both VGAs were able to leave the "dissection table" with a doubled amount of memory. The difference in performance between the video cards is also reflected in the type of memory used, as the 9500 GT received GDDR2 and the HD 4670 GDDR3 memory chips, despite the fact that we know that 1 gigabyte of VRAM does not improve performance in the case of these cards, rather the serves to "deceive" less informed consumers. The specifications of the products in question are summarized in our table below.
Club3D | NVIDIA GeForce GT 9500 | ATI Radeon HD 4670 |
Graphics core | G96 | RV730XT |
GPU clock | 550 MHz | 750 MHz |
Number of shaders | 32 | 320 |
Memory size and type | 1024MB GDDR2 | 1024MB GDDR3 |
Effective memory clock | 800 MHz | 1746 MHz |
Memory bus speed | 128 bit | 128 bit |
Companion card system | NVIDIA SLI | ATI CrossFireX |
DirectX | 10.0 | 10.1 |
