NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs ATI Radeon X1550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 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 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 250W)

Score

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2816

Shading Units

-

176

TMUs

4

96

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

27W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

RV516

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

8 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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