
GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Quadro4 500 XGL - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Quadro4 500 XGL
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
GF116
NV17 A3
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
March 2011
February 2002
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
250 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
29 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
-
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
1.000
Memory type
GDDR5
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
166 MHz
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
2.656 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)
8.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
4.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A