GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 950, which features a core clock speed of 1024 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1652 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 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 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 4639 (245%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 26 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 950 should in theory be just a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 7232 (7%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is a lot (approximately 71%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20352 (71%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11168 (52%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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