T550 Mobile vs GeForce 9600 GT

Place in performance ranking	999	408
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.03	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	G94	TU117
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	21 February 2008 (16 years ago)	27 May 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$179	no data
Current price	$141 (0.8x MSRP)	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	64	1024
CUDA cores	64	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	1065 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1665 MHz
Number of transistors	505 million	4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	96 Watt	25 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	20.8 billion/sec	106.6
Floating-point performance	208 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce 9600 GT and T550 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	9" (22.9 cm)	no data
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin	no data
SLI options	+	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	GDDR3	GDDR5, GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB/s	96 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	6.6
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	+	7.5

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

6−7

−750%

51
+750%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.26	10.26
Recency	21 February 2008	27 May 2022
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	4 GB
Chip lithography	65 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	96 Watt	25 Watt