GeForce RTX 2070 vs GTX 555 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated94
Place by popularitynot in top-10099
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data33.55
Power efficiencyno data16.67
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGF114TU106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 May 2011 (13 years ago)17 October 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2882304
Core clock speed736 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1620 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate35.33233.3
Floating-point processing power0.8479 TFLOPS7.465 TFLOPS
ROPs2464
TMUs48144
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length210 mm229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed957 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth91.87 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI++
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA2.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2011 17 October 2018
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 175 Watt

GTX 555 OEM has 16.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 2070, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 555 OEM and GeForce RTX 2070. We've got no test results to judge.


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