Radeon 550 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Place in performance ranking	476	598
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.40	4.37
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GF110	Lexa
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	29 November 2011 (12 years ago)	20 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$289	$79
Current price	$624 (2.2x MSRP)	$94 (1.2x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Radeon 550 has 993% better value for money than GTX 560 Ti 448.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	448	512
Core clock speed	732 MHz	1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1183 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	40.99	37.86
Floating-point performance	1,311.7 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	267 mm	145 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	2 GB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3800 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB/s	56 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	no data

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	8.16	4.87
Recency	29 November 2011	20 April 2017
Cost	$289	$79
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	50 Watt