NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

2368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +601%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 500

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

192

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

160

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

116W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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