AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

VS

AMD Radeon 550 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +1161%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G96B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G96-309-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

UMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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