GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Quadro DCC - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Quadro DCC

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Kelvin (2001−2003)

GPU code name

GF116

NV20 A5

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

March 2011

May 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

0.8

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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

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