NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 896GB)
Lower TDP (116W vs 182W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
+28%
0.691 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
0.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Sep 2008
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
448bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
27
192
Shading Units
216
32
TMUs
72
24
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.47 GTexel/s
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
536.5 GFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.07 GFLOPS
Board Design
116W
TDP
182W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
GT200
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
G200-103-A2
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
576 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
