NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6930

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 6930

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 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 186W)

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930 +177%

1.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 6930

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

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

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

1280

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

24.00 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

60.00 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.920 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

480.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

186W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Cayman

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

389 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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