NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8730 OEM 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 72.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8730 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (47W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +12%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730 OEM

0.614 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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Radeon HD 8730 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

192

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

38.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde LE

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

116W

TDP

47W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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