Radeon HD 5550 and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Redwood
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
December 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
64
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
19.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
17.02 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI
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