GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3080

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3080, which comes with core clock speeds of 1440 MHz on the GPU, and 1188 MHz on the 10240 MB of GDDR6X memory. It features 8704 SPUs along with 272 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080		320 Watts
	Difference: 204 Watts (176%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3080 is 690% quicker than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		778547 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 680051 (690%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 is much (about 1260%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		391680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 362880 (1260%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 will be much (more or less 540%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		138240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 116640 (540%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.