GeForce GTX 550 Ti and ION 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
ION 2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
GF116
GT218-ION-A3, GT218-ILV-A3
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2011
January 2010
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
405 / 475 / 535 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
16
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
6/12 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
4.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2, DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
790 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A