GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GTX 260 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
GeForce GTX 260
1260
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GTX 260
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
GF116
GT200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
June 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
900 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
192
192
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
192
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
182 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
36.9 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
896 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
999 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
Dual Link DVIHDTV
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
S/PDIF
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