AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 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 10 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +549%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Dec 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

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

512

Shading Units

64

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

95W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G94

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

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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