NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP +294%

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 9

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.27 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1097 GFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1097 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

68.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

50W

300 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

G92

GPU Name

Baffin

-

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

3 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

123 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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