GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon R9 280X2
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GF116
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
-
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
3x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
-
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,170 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
375 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
128.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
288.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.170