GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which has clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1026 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 192 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 24 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 1050		6657 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 4760 (251%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
	Difference: 41 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1050 should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 16192 (16%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be quite a bit (about 88%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25360 (88%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 should be much (about 101%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21728 (101%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.