GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

GF116

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2011

-

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

One 6-pin

2x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

900 MHz

608 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

691.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

480

Power consumption (TDP)

116 Watt

365 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

-

Texture fill rate

28.8 billion/sec

36.48

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

4.1 GB/s

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

98.4 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

+

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A