GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs Radeon HD 5550

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5550, which has a clock frequency of 550 MHz and a DDR2 memory frequency of 400 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 320(64x5) SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti should be 796% faster than the Radeon HD 5550 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5550		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 101888 (796%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 604%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5550. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5550		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 53120 (604%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5550		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36880 (838%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.