NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

56 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX +479%

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

40

48

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

140W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

RV620

-

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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