GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 550, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 240 Watts (480%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should theoretically perform a lot faster than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 508211 (443%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a lot (more or less 759%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 267200 (759%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the Radeon RX 550, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 133600 (759%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a 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 amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.