Radeon HD 5550 and GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 3
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Redwood
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
550 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
32
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
8.800
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
1600 MBps
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A