GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF116
C79
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
April 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
450 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
16
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
40 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
3.600
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
192 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A