GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GTX 260M SLI - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GTX 260M SLI
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
GF116
NB9E-GTX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2011
March 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
1508 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
224
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
150 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
-
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
-
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
10
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
-
OpenGL
4.2
-
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
-