GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GT 610

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    461%
  • GeForce GT 610
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Around 361% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

87 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 550 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 550 Ti

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GT 610
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs292 million
Shaders192vs48
Compute Units4vs1
Core clock900 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs24vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GT 610
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GT 610
TDP116 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs2 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    2490
  • GeForce GT 610
    540

Points (higher is better)