GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 760, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 1152 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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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

In theory, the Geforce GTX 760 should be a lot faster 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 is much (approximately 227%) better at AF 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

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, by far. (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.