GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF116
G94B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
February 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
64
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
95 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
20.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
1800 MBps
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A