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GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti
IntroThe GeForce GTX 480 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 700 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 924 MHz on this specific model. It features 480 SPUs along with 60 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.Compare that to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which has a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1026 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 192 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation Units.
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BenchmarksThese 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
Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 480 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 480 should be a lot (about 46%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is a better choice, by far. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video 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 colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
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3 Responses to “GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti”Hello,
Thank you for this information. I have the GTX 550 ti but i couldn't run battlefield 3 well. And i want to now the following things, the GTX 550 ti has more GHz at Clock and Processor than GTX 480 but that's not the point right? Because GTX 480 is better and faster instead of the 550 ti (i heard and saw on youtube)
So is the GTX 480 will perform better in games like Battlefield 3 than a GTX 550 ti?
Thanks!
@Mitch
Sure,the Gtx 480 is very powerfull.
i have gtx 550ti i play bf3 and bf4 and it runs soooooth is not cause the card even thou that 480 is faster it has to be something else in ur pc that is not strong enough