NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 1 years late
Lower TDP (116W vs 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
0.691 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+293%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 500
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
4
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
1600
32
TMUs
80
24
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
116W
TDP
228W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
Cypress
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
