GeForce GTX 560 and Matrox G550 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 560

Matrox G550

Architecture

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

G500 (2001−2005)

GPU code name

GF114

Condor

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2011

January 2001

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

Two 6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

810 MHz

125 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,088.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

180 nm

Number of transistors

1,950 million

10 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

336

-

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

99 °C

-

Texture fill rate

45.36

0.25

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

32 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

4000 MHz

332 MBps

Memory bandwidth

128.0 GB/s

2.656 GB/s

Display Connectors

Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI

1x DVI, 1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

8.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.1

1.5

Shader Model

5.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

3D Blu-Ray

+

-

3D Gaming

+

-