AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

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AMD Radeon 550X 640SP NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP 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 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

592 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP +778%

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

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GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Oct 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

48

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

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 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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