GeForce GT 550M and Radeon 9600 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 550M vs Radeon 9600 XT
GeForce GT 550M
590
Radeon 9600 XT
36
GeForce GT 550M
Radeon 9600 XT
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
RV360
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
740 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
22 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
2.000
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
9.0 (9_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-