GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Nvidia Titan X, which comes with a core clock speed of 1417 MHz and a GDDR5X memory speed of 1251 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 16 nm design. It features 3584 SPUs, 224 TAUs, and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Nvidia Titan X should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 393024 (399%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is a lot (approximately 1002%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 288608 (1002%)

Pixel Rate

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

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 114432 (530%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.