GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 837 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1502 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 2688 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX Titan		10162 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 8265 (436%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 134 Watts (116%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 189888 (193%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is much (about 551%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 158688 (551%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18576 (86%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.