GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce 9800S - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce 9800S
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GF116
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
July 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
900 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
192
64
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
64
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
19.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
VGAHDMISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
S/PDIF + HDA
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A