AMD Radeon Pro 555X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 555X and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon Pro 555X

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 555X

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 81% higher core clock speed: 907 MHz vs 500 MHz
48x more pipelines: 768 vs 16
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
3.2x more memory clock speed: 5100 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	16 July 2018 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	907 MHz vs 500 MHz
Pipelines	768 vs 16
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 555X
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Geekbench - OpenCL	12693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	35.283
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	668.308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	49.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	170.952
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4093
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
PassMark - G3D Mark		122
PassMark - G2D Mark		172

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 555X	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Tesla
Code name	Polaris 21	G96
Launch date	16 July 2018	3 June 2008
Place in performance rating	986	983
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	907 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	768	16
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	314 million
CUDA cores		16
Floating-point performance		40 gflops
Gigaflops		60
Texture fill rate		4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5100 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		25.6 GB / s
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0