NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +370%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

195W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

GK104

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.1

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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