GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GF116
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2011
November 2014
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
975 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
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
116 Watt
80 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
100 °C
-
Texture fill rate
28.8 billion/sec
62.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4.1 GB/s
5.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
98.4 GB/s
174.7 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)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.2
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2