NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 2400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and ATI Radeon HD 2400 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 4.5x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 398 MHz
  • 18.1x more texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 1.592 GTexel / s
  • 4.8x more pipelines: 192 vs 40
  • 21.7x better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 31.84 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 1026 MHz vs 990 MHz
  • 12.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1557 vs 121
  • Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 382 vs 298
  • 5.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3322 vs 635
  • 5.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3322 vs 635
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 March 2011 vs 19 February 2008
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 398 MHz
Texture fill rate 28.8 billion / sec vs 1.592 GTexel / s
Pipelines 192 vs 40
Floating-point performance 691.2 gflops vs 31.84 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1026 MHz vs 990 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1557 vs 121
PassMark - G2D Mark 382 vs 298
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3322 vs 635
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3322 vs 635

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2400

  • 5.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 116 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 116 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2400

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1557
121
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
382
298
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3322
635
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3322
635
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti ATI Radeon HD 2400
PassMark - G3D Mark 1557 121
PassMark - G2D Mark 382 298
Geekbench - OpenCL 5750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 354.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 41.941
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3322 635
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3322 635
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 322

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti ATI Radeon HD 2400

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GF116 RV610
Launch date 15 March 2011 19 February 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $149
Place in performance rating 1019 1064
Price now $287.59
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 7.49

Technical info

Core clock speed 1800 MHz 398 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 691.2 gflops 31.84 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C
Pipelines 192 40
Texture fill rate 28.8 billion / sec 1.592 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 116 Watt 20 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 180 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 8.25" (21 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors One 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 98.4 GB / s 7.92 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1026 MHz 990 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI