Radeon X550 and GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon X550
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
Architecture
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV370
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2005
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
400 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
107 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
32
Power consumption (TDP)
-
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
8.000
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
1584 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8 GB/s
25.34 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
9.0
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.0
3.3
Shader Model
-
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A