ATI Radeon HD 4550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 4550 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
ATI Radeon HD 4550 's Advantages
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (25W vs 95W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 10.48GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4550
0.096 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+100%
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2008
Release Date
Dec 2008
Radeon R700
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
655 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
10.48GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
1
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
80
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
96.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.0
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV710
GPU Name
G94
RV710
(215-0725016)
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.242 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
73 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
