NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

592 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP +778%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 9

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Lexa

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

240 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

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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