GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 8550G - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon HD 8550G
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon HD 8550G
422
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon HD 8550G
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
G94
Richland
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
February 2008
March 2013
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
720 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
515 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
1,303 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
256
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
35 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
11.52
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A