GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare that to the Nvidia Titan X, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM runs at a frequency of 1251 MHz on this particular card. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 134 Watts (116%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 393024 (399%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is quite a bit (about 1002%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 288608 (1002%)

Pixel Rate

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

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 114432 (530%)

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 transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 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 number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.