GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Riva TNT2 PRO - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Riva TNT2 PRO

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Fahrenheit (1998−2000)

GPU code name

GF116

NV5 B6

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2011

October 1999

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

143 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

691.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

250 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

15 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

-

Power consumption (TDP)

116 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

-

Texture fill rate

28.8 billion/sec

0.29

Memory type

GDDR5

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

32 MB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4.1 GB/s

167 MHz

Memory bandwidth

98.4 GB/s

2.672 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

6.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

1.2

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A