NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 116W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
+259%
0.691 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
8
192
Shading Units
64
32
TMUs
32
24
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
116W
TDP
95W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
G94
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
