NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD Radeon 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

AMD Radeon 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon 550 +1276%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

Radeon 550

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 9

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

56.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Lexa

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

UMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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