GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which has core speeds of 889 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2880 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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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

GeForce GTX Titan Black		11666 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 9769 (515%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 134 Watts (116%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX Titan Black should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 237504 (241%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be quite a bit (about 641%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 184560 (641%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21072 (98%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.