
GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
1599
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF116
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
April 2014
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
900 MHz
-
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
160
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
19 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
+
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-