GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which has a clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1026 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 192 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation 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 1050 Ti		7734 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 5837 (308%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 41 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 16192 (16%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 115%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33120 (115%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be a lot (more or less 91%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19680 (91%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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.