Radeon HD 5550 and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
Radeon HD 5550
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Redwood
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2010
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
550 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
352.0 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
627 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
39 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
27.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
44.8 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