GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 837 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator 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 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan will be quite a bit (more or less 551%) better 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 running with high levels of AA 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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.