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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti has core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1026 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features core clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 75 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 116 Watts
Difference: 41 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 112000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
Difference: 13504 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be quite a bit (about 112%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB 61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 32240 (112%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is much (about 24%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB 17440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4160 (24%)

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 RX 460 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2011 August 2016
Code Name GF116 Polaris 11
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 1090 MHz
Memory Speed 4104 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 116 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 98496 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 28800 Mtexels/sec 61040 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 17440 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 14 nm
Transistors 1170 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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Radeon RX 460 2GB

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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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