GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which features GPU core speed of 975 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 4G should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 80704 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is much (about 117%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33600 (117%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9600 (44%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.