GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon 540
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
Radeon 540
1420
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon 540
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GF116
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
April 2017
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
1183 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
384
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3