NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI 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 3 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 50W)
Score
Graphics Card
May 2010
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
4.256GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
32 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.808 GPixel/s
8.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.808 GTexel/s
-
-
-
89.60 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
27W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
RV516
-
-
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
