GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		285 Watts
	Difference: 235 Watts (470%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		516096 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 401408 (350%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be much (about 1475%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		554400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 519200 (1475%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		184800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 167200 (950%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.