NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

ATI Radeon HD 3690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3690 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 late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 26.56GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3690 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +61%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3690

0.429 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 3690

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 500

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

26.56GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.8 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

RV670

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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