NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 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

Lower TDP (116W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +448%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

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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