NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550 OEM 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 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8550 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM +200%

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 8550 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Sea Islands

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

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

480

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

60W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

Turks

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

118 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

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