GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs 650

Place in performance ranking	616	651
Place by popularity	65	55
Value for money	0.35	0.28
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GK107	GF116
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	6 September 2012 (11 years old)	15 March 2011 (13 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$109	$149
Current price	$207 (1.9x MSRP)	$197 (1.3x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 650 has 25% better value for money than GTX 550 Ti.

Technical specs

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	384	192
CUDA cores	384	192
Core clock speed	1058 MHz	900 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	64 Watt	116 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	no data	100 °C
Texture fill rate	33.9 billion/sec	28.8 billion/sec
Floating-point performance	812.5 gflops	691.2 gflops

Size and 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).

Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	5.70" (14.5 cm)	8.25" (21 cm)
Height	4.38" (11.1 cm)	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin	One 6-pin
SLI options	no data	+

Memory

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	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128-bit GDDR5	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	5.0 GB/s	4.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB/s	98.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One Mini HDMI	Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
Multi monitor support	4 displays	+
HDMI	+	+
HDCP	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	Internal	Internal

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray	+	no data
3D Gaming	+	no data
3D Vision	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.3	4.2
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	+	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 650 4.52
+13.3%

GTX 550 Ti 3.99

650 outperforms 550 Ti by 13% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GTX 650 1749
+13.1%

GTX 550 Ti 1546

650 outperforms 550 Ti by 13% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GTX 650 4472

GTX 550 Ti 5826
+30.3%

550 Ti outperforms 650 by 30% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 650 14

GTX 550 Ti 20
+42.9%

550 Ti outperforms 650 by 43% in Octane Render OctaneBench.