GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Nano, which comes with core speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 4096 MB of HBM RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 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

Radeon R9 Nano		14918 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 13021 (686%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 59 Watts (51%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 Nano should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 413504 (420%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano will be much (about 789%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 227200 (789%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Nano is superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 42400 (196%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

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