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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Intro
The GeForce GTX 550 Ti makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1026 MHz on this particular card. It features 192 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 24 ROPs.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, which features GPU clock speed of 750 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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116 Watts |
| Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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150 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 4870 1GB should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)
| Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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115200 MB/sec |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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98496 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 4870 1GB is a bit (about 4%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)| Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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30000 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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28800 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is superior to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, and very much so. (explain)| GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
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21600 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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12000 Mpixels/sec |
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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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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Specifications
| Model | GeForce GTX 550 Ti | Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | March 2011 | Jun 25, 2008 |
| Code Name | GF116 | RV770 XT |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 900 MHz | 750 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 4104 MHz | 3600 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 116 watts | 150 watts |
| Bandwidth | 98496 MB/sec | 115200 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 28800 Mtexels/sec | 30000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 21600 Mpixels/sec | 12000 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 192 | 800(160x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 40 |
| Render Output Units | 24 | 16 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 55 nm |
| Transistors | 1170 million | 956 million |
| Bus | PCIe 2.1 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 10.1 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 3.0 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
GeForce GTX 550 TiAmazon.com
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Radeon HD 4870 1GBAmazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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Comments
3 Responses to “GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 4870 1GB”[...] [...]
Wow!
I bought the 550 Ti last week... but I didn't realize it would give me such good performance... even for a hardcore gamer like me \m/
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Hello! 😉
I bought recently the ASUS GTX550 Ti DirectCU because my 8800GT 'crashed and burned' and I'm really very pleased with it!
It has an amazing cooling system and allready brings a factory OC, it also has a volt tweak (VCore) to increase performance up to a stunishing 50%!
All these functions are controlled by an ASUS application, you can do it manually or let it auto-configure (like the 'HyperDrive' feature)....and the temperatures are always between 35º/45º, incredible!
In theory, with the OC and VCore enabled, this card can be superior to the 'normal' GTX560....wow!!
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