GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6390

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon HD 6390
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 4 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6390

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 6390

77 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 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 TiRadeon HD 6390
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsRedwood (Redwood LE)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs627 million
Shaders192vs320
Compute Units4vs4
Core clock900 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 6390
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR2
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 6390
TDP116 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs4 Jul 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6390
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6390
    8.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6390
    16.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6390
    352.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better