ATI Radeon X1550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon X1550

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 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 X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 95W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1550

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Dec 2008

Radeon R500 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

400 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

-

Shading Units

64

4

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

2.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

27W

TDP

95W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

G94

-

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

R500

Architecture

Tesla

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.107 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.1

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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