AMD Radeon E8860 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8860 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8860

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• 3.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 192
• Around 16% better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 37 Watt vs 116 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• 4.4x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1026 MHz
• Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1686 vs 1557
• Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 436 vs 382
• 4.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 26300 vs 5750
• Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 20.395 vs 18.461
• Around 49% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 529.248 vs 354.392
• Around 50% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.683 vs 1.125
• Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 47.86 vs 41.941
• Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 4345 vs 3322
• Around 31% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 4345 vs 3322

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

• 3.1x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 575 MHz
• Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s
• Around 17% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 18.511 vs 15.803
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2488 vs 1246
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3351 vs 1655
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2488 vs 1246
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3351 vs 1655

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8860
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1686 1557
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	436 382
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	26300 5750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	20.395 18.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	529.248 354.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.683 1.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	15.803 18.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	47.86 41.941
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1246 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1655 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4345 3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1246 2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1655 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4345 3322

Compare specifications (specs)