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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 5670
Intro
The GeForce GTX 550 Ti uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1026 MHz on this particular model. It features 192 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5670, which has GPU core speed of 775 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 400(80x5) SPUs, 20 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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61 Watts |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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116 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 5670 overall. (explain)
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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98496 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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64000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce GTX 550 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 86%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5670. (explain)| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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28800 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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15500 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 5670, by a large margin. (explain)| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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21600 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 5670 |
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6200 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 5670 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | March 2011 | January 14, 2010 |
| Code Name | GF116 | Redwood XT |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 900 MHz | 775 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 4104 MHz | 4000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 116 watts | 61 watts |
| Bandwidth | 98496 MB/sec | 64000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 28800 Mtexels/sec | 15500 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 21600 Mpixels/sec | 6200 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 192 | 400(80x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 20 |
| Render Output Units | 24 | 8 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192-bit | 128-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 1170 million | 627 million |
| Bus | PCIe 2.1 x16 | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 3.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory 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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Comments
One Response to “GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 5670”Hey there, thank you so much for the details of these 2 graphic card, now I have both of them gtx 550ti and hd 5670, both are 1GB and DDR5,so can install them together in SLI, I have core I3 2100 3.00ghz 8Gb DDR3 Ram and PSU 750W 2TB hard drive, please let me know if I cam mix these 2 cards, thanx a lot.