NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Lower TDP (27W vs 116W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
+187%
0.691 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7470 OEM
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 500
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
4
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
160
32
TMUs
8
24
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.000 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
116W
TDP
27W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
Caicos
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
Khalidster
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
