GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which has a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1026 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 192 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be 16% faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 is a lot (approximately 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

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is the winner, and very much so. (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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.