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GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1080 has a GPU clock speed of 1607 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR5X RAM is set to run at 1251 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2560 SPUs, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1026 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator 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

GeForce GTX 1080 21942 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1897 points
Difference: 20045 (1057%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 116 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080 180 Watts
Difference: 64 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080 327680 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
Difference: 229184 (233%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is quite a bit (approximately 793%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080 257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 228320 (793%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080 102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 81248 (376%)

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 1080 GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year May 2016 March 2011
Code Name GP104-400 GF116
Memory 8192 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1607 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 10008 MHz 4104 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 180 watts 116 watts
Bandwidth 327680 MB/sec 98496 MB/sec
Texel Rate 257120 Mtexels/sec 28800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 102848 Mpixels/sec 21600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 192
Texture Mapping Units 160 32
Render Output Units 64 24
Bus Type GDDR5X GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 40 nm
Transistors 7200 million 1170 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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