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GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti
IntroThe GeForce GTX 480 features a clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 924 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 480 SPUs, 60 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1026 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 192 Stream Processors, 32 Texture Address Units, and 24 ROPs.
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BenchmarksThese 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
Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthThe GeForce GTX 480 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 480 should be much (more or less 46%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)
Pixel RateThe GeForce GTX 480 is a lot (about 56%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)
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
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
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3 Responses to “GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti”Hello,
Thank you for this information. I have the GTX 550 ti but i couldn't run battlefield 3 well. And i want to now the following things, the GTX 550 ti has more GHz at Clock and Processor than GTX 480 but that's not the point right? Because GTX 480 is better and faster instead of the 550 ti (i heard and saw on youtube)
So is the GTX 480 will perform better in games like Battlefield 3 than a GTX 550 ti?
Thanks!
@Mitch
Sure,the Gtx 480 is very powerfull.
i have gtx 550ti i play bf3 and bf4 and it runs soooooth is not cause the card even thou that 480 is faster it has to be something else in ur pc that is not strong enough