GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

CORE STATE GF116

VRAM 1024 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 116 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi 2.0

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2011

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

5,731

33,457

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 550 Ti

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

192

2,048 +966.7%

Shaders

192

2,048 +966.7%

TMUs

32

128 +300.0%

ROPs

24

64 +166.7%

SM Count

4

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1216 MHz

GPU Clock

900 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1800 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1026 MHz 4.1 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1024 MB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,024

4,096 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

98.50 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

384 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

691.2 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

57.60 GFLOPS (1:12)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

116 W

165 W

TDP (W)

116

165 +42.2%

Suggested PSU

300 W

450 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GF116

GM204

Generation

GeForce 500

GeForce 900

Process Size

40 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,170 million

5,200 million

Die Size

238 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

4.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

CUDA

2.1

5.2

Shader Model

5.1

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

210 mm 8.3 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

149 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 400

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 600

GeForce 10

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