
GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
GF116
M98
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
August 2009
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
503 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
804.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
800
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
20.12
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
1700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
54.4 GB/s
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)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A