GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 3550 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon HD 3550

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

G94

RV620

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

August 2008

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

650 MHz

594 MHz

CUDA cores

64

-

Floating-point performance

208 gflops

47.52 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

181 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

40

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

30 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

2.376

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

512 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

792 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

6.336 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI

2x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

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