NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 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 10.67GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +245%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

160

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

2.500 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 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 VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Caicos

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

67 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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