NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
4x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 10.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1557 vs 258
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 382 vs 160

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 March 2011 vs 9 March 2006
Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec vs 10.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1557 vs 258
PassMark - G2D Mark	382 vs 160

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

2.4x lower typical power consumption: 48 Watt vs 116 Watt
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt vs 116 Watt
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1557

258

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

382

160

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1557	258
PassMark - G2D Mark	382	160
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3322
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	322

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF116	G71
Launch date	15 March 2011	9 March 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$149
Place in performance rating	1019	1050
Price now	$287.59
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	7.49
Technical info
Core clock speed	1800 MHz	450 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	100 °C
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	116 Watt	48 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	2x 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	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.2	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	98.4 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1026 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI