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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850
Intro
The GeForce GTX 550 Ti comes with a clock frequency of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1026 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 192 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6850, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 775 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 960 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.
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
| Radeon HD 6850 |
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2395 points |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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1897 points |
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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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116 Watts |
| Radeon HD 6850 |
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127 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon HD 6850 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)
| Radeon HD 6850 |
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128000 MB/sec |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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98496 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 6850 should be quite a bit (more or less 29%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)| Radeon HD 6850 |
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37200 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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28800 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6850 is superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)| Radeon HD 6850 |
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24800 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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21600 Mpixels/sec |
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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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Specifications
| Model | GeForce GTX 550 Ti | Radeon HD 6850 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | March 2011 | October 2010 |
| Code Name | GF116 | Barts Pro |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 900 MHz | 775 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 4104 MHz | 4000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 116 watts | 127 watts |
| Bandwidth | 98496 MB/sec | 128000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 28800 Mtexels/sec | 37200 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 21600 Mpixels/sec | 24800 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 192 | 960 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 48 |
| Render Output Units | 24 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 1170 million | 1700 million |
| Bus | PCIe 2.1 x16 | PCIe x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 4.1 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.
GeForce GTX 550 TiAmazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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Comments
7 Responses to “GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850”[...] Voor die prijs kan je beter een AMD 6850 kopen, die is op alle vlakken zowat beter voor evenveel geld : GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850 – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare [...]
Can someone tell me what is better gainward 550 ti GS or his hd 6850 iceq x turbo ? Also will a psu raidmax 520w be enough for either of them ?
other components : regular motherboard (from msi), 2 hdds 7200 rpm , 4 gb ram kingston, intel duo core at 2.66 ghz (2 cpus) ...
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450 w will do just fine
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It is very important to remember some games prefer AMD cards while other games prefer NVIDIA. For example the HD6850 plays planetside 2 like a dream on 1080p medium high settings, I have yet to try max settings. But on other games like RIFT you might have a slight performance boost with the 550ti I cannot go into details right now but just my 2 cents.Most of the time poorly desgined mmorpgs like rift or pwi use peoples internet speed more then there gpu. Other games that are well designed like wow and gw2 use your gpu more efficiently.