GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 645 OEM

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GeForce GTX 645 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Apr 2013
GeForce GTX 645 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 645 OEM

51 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.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 645 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 645 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GTX 645 OEM
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders192vs576
Compute Units4vs3
Core clock900 MHzvs824 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs32vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GTX 645 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 550 TiGeForce GTX 645 OEM
TDP116 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs22 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 645 OEM
    9.89 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 645 OEM
    39.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 645 OEM
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 645 OEM
    949.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better