GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 2060, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 TAUs 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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2060 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be quite a bit (about 469%) faster with regards to 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

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and very much so. (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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.