NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM 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 6 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 589 MHz
  • 6.1x more texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 4.71 GTexel / s
  • 12x more pipelines: 192 vs 16
  • 15.4x better floating-point performance: 691.2 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 13.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1557 vs 118
  • 6.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 382 vs 55
  • 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5750 vs 2795
  • 3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3322 vs 1017
  • 3.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3322 vs 1017
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 March 2011 vs 3 September 2010
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate 28.8 billion / sec vs 4.71 GTexel / s
Pipelines 192 vs 16
Floating-point performance 691.2 gflops vs 44.86 gflops
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1557 vs 118
PassMark - G2D Mark 382 vs 55
Geekbench - OpenCL 5750 vs 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3322 vs 1017
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3322 vs 1017

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

  • 4.6x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 116 Watt
  • Around 54% higher memory clock speed: 1580 MHz vs 1026 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 116 Watt
Memory clock speed 1580 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1557
118
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
382
55
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
5750
2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3322
1017
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3322
1017
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 1557 118
PassMark - G2D Mark 382 55
Geekbench - OpenCL 5750 2795
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 1017
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3322 1017
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 322

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti NVIDIA GeForce 405 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Fermi 2.0 Tesla 2.0
Code name GF116 GT218
Launch date 15 March 2011 3 September 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $149
Place in performance rating 1019 1637
Price now $287.59
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 7.49

Technical info

Core clock speed 1800 MHz 589 MHz
CUDA cores 192
Floating-point performance 691.2 gflops 44.86 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 100 °C
Pipelines 192 16
Texture fill rate 28.8 billion / sec 4.71 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 116 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 1,170 million 260 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 HDMI, 1x VGA
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 2.0 x16
Length 8.25" (21 cm) 168 mm
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors One 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.2 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 98.4 GB / s 12.64 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1026 MHz 1580 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI