GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Aug 2014
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
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 710 (Fermi)
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 710 (Fermi)
TDP116 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs22 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    14.37 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    155.52 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better