GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Steam Deck GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Steam Deck GPU

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

RDNA 2.0 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GF116

Van Gogh

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2011

February 2022

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Supplementary power connectors

One 6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1600 MHz

Core clock speed

900 MHz

-

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

691.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

2,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

512

Power consumption (TDP)

116 Watt

15 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

-

Texture fill rate

28.8 billion/sec

51.20

Memory type

GDDR5

LPDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4.1 GB/s

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

98.4 GB/s

88 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI

1x USB Type-C

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2