NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +564%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

80

32

TMUs

8

24

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

116W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Cedar

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

59 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

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