NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 +482%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 9

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

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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