GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GT 720 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GT 720
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
GeForce GT 720
628
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GT 720
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code name
GF116
GK208B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
September 2014
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
797 MHz
CUDA cores
192
192
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
306.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
915 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
192
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
98 °C
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
12.75
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 / GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB or 1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA
Multi monitor support
+
3 displays
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision
-
+