NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon R7 240

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 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 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +38%

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

192

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

20

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

6.240 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Oland

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

116W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

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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