AMD Radeon HD 6550A vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6550A NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6550A and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6550A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6550A +560%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550A

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GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Oct 2008

All-In-One

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

6

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

13.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

528.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pinewood

GPU Name

G96C

Pinewood PRO

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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