AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon 550X NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +1285%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

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GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/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

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G96C

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

121 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

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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