GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 550 Ti - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GTX 280
1338
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GT200
GF116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
March 2011
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
One 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
602 MHz
900 MHz
CUDA cores
240
192
Floating-point performance
622.1 gflops
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
240
192
Power consumption (TDP)
236 Watt
116 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
100 °C
Texture fill rate
48.2 billion/sec
28.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1107 MHz
4.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
141.7 GB/s
98.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
Internal
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.2
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A