GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 240

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon R7 240
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 240

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240

86 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 Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 240
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsOland (Oland PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders192vs320
Compute Units4vs5
Core clock900 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs32vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon R7 240
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon R7 240
TDP116 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better