NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +249%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

GM206

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

116W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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