NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT 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 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

Lower TDP (116W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +139%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Nov 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

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

240

32

TMUs

12

24

ROPs

12

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

116W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

R600

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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