NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 365W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590 +80%

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

16

192

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.46 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.91 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1244 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

365W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

GF110

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-351-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

3 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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