Radeon HD 6550M and GeForce 9600M GT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6550M
GeForce 9600M GT
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Capilano-PRO
NB9P-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2010
June 2008
Interface
MXM-II
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
120 MHz
CUDA cores
-
32
Floating-point performance
480.0 gflops
80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,154 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
400
32
Power consumption (TDP)
26 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.00
8.000
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A