AMD Radeon 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (56.00GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550 +335%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2009

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

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G92

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

140W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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