GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1018 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1250 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is made up of 2816 Stream Processors, 176 Texture Address Units, and 64 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

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 19308 (1018%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 384 Watts (331%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 should be 550% quicker than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 541504 (550%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be quite a bit (more or less 1144%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 329536 (1144%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is quite a bit (more or less 503%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 108704 (503%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.