GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1365 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 1920 SPUs, 120 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 44 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 245568 (249%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is quite a bit (more or less 469%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 135000 (469%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (approximately 203%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43920 (203%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.