GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GeForce3 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce3
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
GeForce3
4
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce3
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code name
GF116
NV20 A5
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
February 2001
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
200 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
57 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
-
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
1.600
Memory type
GDDR5
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
230 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
3.68 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
1x VGA, 1x DB13W3
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
8.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A