NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 116W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
+667%
0.691 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
May 2010
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
4
192
Shading Units
32
32
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
89.60 GFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
116W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
G96C
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
