NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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

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

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