NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1218MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon 550X
+549%
1.247 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 9
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1082 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
512
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1247 GFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1247 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
77.95 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Lexa
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
