GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 950, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1652 MHz on this particular model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 32 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 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 4639 (245%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 26 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 950 should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 7232 (7%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 will be a lot (approximately 71%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20352 (71%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11168 (52%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.