GeForce GTS 250 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 550 Ti Advantages

Released 2 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (116W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

387

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +78%

691

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1026 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

98.50GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

4

128

Shading Units

192

64

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

57.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

116W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GF116

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

GF116-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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