GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 29 May 2013
GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8

91 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
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsGK208 (GK208-301-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvsunknown
Shaders192vs384
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock900 MHzvs902 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
TDP116 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs29 May 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
    7.22 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
    14.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8
    692.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better