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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti comes with a clock frequency of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1026 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 192 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 24 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M280X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 900 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1375 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M280X 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 116 Watts
Difference: 41 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti, in theory, should be a bit faster than the Radeon R9 M280X in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 88000 MB/sec
Difference: 10496 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X is a lot (more or less 75%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 21600 (75%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti will be much (approximately 50%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 M280X, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 14400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7200 (50%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 550 Ti Radeon R9 M280X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2011 Feb 9 2015
Code Name GF116 Saturn XT
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 4104 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 116 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 98496 MB/sec 88000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 28800 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 192 896
Texture Mapping Units 32 56
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1170 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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Radeon R9 M280X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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