AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP 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 RX 550 512SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 84W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 512SP +315%

1.097 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 512SP

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Apr 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

34.27 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

1097 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1097 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

68.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

G92

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

324 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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