NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

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

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +174%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1024

32

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

116W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

212 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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