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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850
IntroThe GeForce GTX 550 Ti features core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1026 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6850, which has a core clock frequency of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 960 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.
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3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthPerformance-wise, the Radeon HD 6850 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon HD 6850 is much (more or less 29%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)
Pixel RateThe Radeon HD 6850 will be a small bit (about 15%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.
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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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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
[...] Which graphics card is better? Looks to me like the 6850 wins - GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850 – Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare but the GTX 550 Ti is a tiny bit cheaper. My Custom-Built PC Core i5 760 2.8GHz, 8GB DDR3 [...]
[...] teniendo la 6850 a 115€, para que te hagas una idea de la diferencia por el mismo precio: GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850 ***8211; Performance Comparison Benchmarks @ Hardware Compare Por ese mismo precio tienes este (con lo que comente justo antes), aunque como parece que no te [...]
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.