NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1076MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
2624 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Lower TDP (116W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
+776%
6.06 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
0.691 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 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
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1076 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1026 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
336.6GB/s
Bandwidth
98.50GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
2816
Shading Units
192
176
TMUs
32
96
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
103.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
189.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
6.060 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
691.2 GFLOPS
189.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
116W
600 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 + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GF116
GM200-310-A1
GPU Variant
GF116-400-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
8 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
601 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
