GeForce 9500 GT and Radeon HD 3550 - video card comparison
GeForce 9500 GT
Radeon HD 3550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G96
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
August 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
594 MHz
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
89.6 gflops
47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
40
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
30 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
8.8 billion/sec
2.376
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
6.336 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
2x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A