GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Switch GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Switch GPU

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

GF116

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2011

March 2017

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

One 6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

900 MHz

-

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

691.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

1,170 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

256

Power consumption (TDP)

116 Watt

15 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

100 °C

-

Texture fill rate

28.8 billion/sec

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4.1 GB/s

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

98.4 GB/s

25.6 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 (12_1)

CUDA

+

5.3

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

4.2

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126