ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 vs FirePro D500
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 485 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 2.75 | no data |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | Rage 9 (2003−2006) |
| GPU code name | Tahiti | M12 |
| Market segment | Workstation | Laptop |
| Release date | 18 January 2014 (11 years ago) | 1 June 2004 (21 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1536 | 6 |
| Core clock speed | 725 MHz | 250 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 210 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 4,313 million | 76 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 130 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 274 Watt | no data |
| Texture fill rate | 69.60 | 1.000 |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.227 TFLOPS | no data |
| ROPs | 32 | 4 |
| TMUs | 96 | 4 |
| L1 Cache | 384 KB | no data |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | no data |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | no data | medium sized |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | AGP 4x |
| Length | 279 mm | no data |
| Width | 2-slot | no data |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | DDR |
| Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | 64 MB |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1270 MHz | 243 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 243.8 GB/s | 3.888 GB/s |
| Shared memory | - | - |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | 6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 9.0 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | no data |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 2.0 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | N/A |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 | N/A |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 18 January 2014 | 1 June 2004 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | 64 MB |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 130 nm |
FirePro D500 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between FirePro D500 and Mobility Radeon 9550. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that FirePro D500 is a workstation graphics card while Mobility Radeon 9550 is a notebook one.
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