ATI Radeon HD 4550 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV710 G96C
GPU variant RV710 (215-0725016)
Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 55 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 242 million 314 million
Die size 73 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 30th, 2008 May 19th, 2010
Generation Radeon R700 GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 59 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 18 in our database 22 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R600 GeForce 8
Successor Evergreen GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 550 MHz
Memory clock 655 MHz 1310 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1400 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR2 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 10.48 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 80 32
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 8
Compute units 1
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 64 KB 32 KB
SM count 4

Performance

Pixel rate 2.400 GPixel/s 4.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 4.800 GTexel/s 8.800 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 96.00 GFLOPS 89.60 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches 145 mm 5.7 inches
TDP 25 W 50 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number AB711, B725, B889, B890, B947

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.1 (10_1) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 4.1 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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