AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 84W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +372%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

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GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2008

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

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

77.95 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

84W

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

1x 6-pin

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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