NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 9

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

89.60 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

NV43

-

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Tesla

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

110 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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