
GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GTX 260M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 260M
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
GeForce GTX 260M
390
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GTX 260M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
GF116
N10E-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2011
March 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
2-way
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Core clock speed
900 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
192
112
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
308 gflops
Gigaflops
-
462
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
112
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
31 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
Up to 950 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
61 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
DisplayPortSingle Link DVIDual Link DVIVGALVDSHDMI
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
Power management
-
8.0