NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (116W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +249%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

116W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF116

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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