GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 760, which has a clock speed of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1502 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1152 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 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 760		5923 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 4026 (212%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 54 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 93760 (95%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be a lot (about 227%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 65280 (227%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is quite a bit (about 45%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9760 (45%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.