GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
61
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
GF116
NV38
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
October 2003
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
475 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
-
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
74 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
3.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
30.4 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)
9.0a
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A