NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

72 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +259%

0.691 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

120

32

TMUs

8

24

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

116W

TDP

45W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

RV630

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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