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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970

Intro

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti comes with a core clock frequency of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1026 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 192 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 970, which comes with core clock speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1664 SPUs along with 104 Texture Address Units and 64 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 970 10867 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1897 points
Difference: 8970 (473%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 116 Watts
GeForce GTX 970 145 Watts
Difference: 29 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 970 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 224000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
Difference: 125504 (127%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970 will be much (more or less 279%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 109200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 80400 (279%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 970 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970 67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 45600 (211%)

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

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Model GeForce GTX 550 Ti GeForce GTX 970
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year March 2011 September 2014
Code Name GF116 GM204-200
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory Speed 4104 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 116 watts 145 watts
Bandwidth 98496 MB/sec 224000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 28800 Mtexels/sec 109200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 67200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 192 1664
Texture Mapping Units 32 104
Render Output Units 24 64
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1170 million 5200 million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970”
leato15 says:

para mi La GTX 970 es mucho mejor como la GTX 550 Ti la comparacion diferencia en rendimiento GTX 550 TI vs GTX 970 lo mas rapido
mas rendimiento FPS y benchmark

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