NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 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 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +342%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

6

192

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

116W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

G94B

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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