NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +202%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 500

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1440

32

TMUs

72

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

23.20 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

151W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Cypress

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

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

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