GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 550 Ti Advantages
Released 11 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 500
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
4
24
ROPs
4
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
116W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
NV10
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
220 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
-
