GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, which features core speeds of 822 MHz on the GPU, and 1002 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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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 560 Ti		3466 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 1569 (83%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 54 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should theoretically perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 29760 (30%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be quite a bit (more or less 83%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23808 (83%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti should be much (approximately 22%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4704 (22%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.