NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 90W)
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
4.256GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
-
24
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.808 GPixel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.808 GTexel/s
-
-
-
156.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
90W
TDP
27W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV516
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
