NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X550 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
300 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.600 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV410
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.12 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
156 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
