NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 26W)

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M +595%

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

400

16

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

6.880 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

68.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Lexington

NB9P-GE2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

334 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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