GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and Radeon 550X - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Radeon 550X
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
G94
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2008
March 2019
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1218 MHz
Core clock speed
600 MHz
1082 MHz
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
512
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
19.20
38.98
Memory type
DDR2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
17.02 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131