GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GT 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GT 520
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
GeForce GT 520
318
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GT 520
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GF116
GF119
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
April 2011
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
810 MHz
CUDA cores
192
48
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
155.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
292 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
48
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
29 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
102 °C
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
6.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB (DDR3)
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
900 MHz (DDR3)
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
Dual Link DVI-IHDMIVGA (optional)
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A