GeForce 9600 GSO vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

GeForce 9600 GSO
Memory: 384Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Apr 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSOGeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameG92 ()vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders96vs192
Compute Units6vs4
Core clock550 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs12vs24
TMUs48vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSOGeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size384 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GSOGeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP84 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date28 Apr 2008vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    6.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    26.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    38.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    264.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better