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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 5670

Intro

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti comes with a GPU clock speed of 900 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1026 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 192 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 24 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5670, which has a clock speed of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 400(80x5) SPUs, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5670 61 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti 116 Watts
Difference: 55 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 5670 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5670 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 34496 (54%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 86%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5670. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 15500 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13300 (86%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be much (approximately 248%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 5670, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 6200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15400 (248%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 550 Ti Radeon HD 5670
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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 5670”
khalid babar says:

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.

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