GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1026 MHz on this card. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 1070 Ti		19808 points
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		1897 points
	Difference: 17911 (944%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 64 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 163648 (166%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be a lot (about 748%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 215464 (748%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be a lot (more or less 376%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 81248 (376%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.