AMD Radeon RX 550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +676%

1.211 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

512

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

90W

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

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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