GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 295X2, which comes with clock speeds of 1018 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 Texture Address Units and 64 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

Radeon R9 295X2		21205 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 19308 (1018%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 384 Watts (331%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 295X2 should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 541504 (550%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be a lot (approximately 1144%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 329536 (1144%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 should be quite a bit (approximately 503%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and also able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 108704 (503%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.