NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 5550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 5550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
ATI Radeon HD 5550 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (39W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5550
+69%
0.352 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Feb 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
352.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
39W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Redwood
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Redwood PRO2
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
