NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs ATI Radeon 9800 XXL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and ATI Radeon 9800 XXL 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

ATI Radeon 9800 XXL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
4.6x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 390 MHz
9.2x more texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 3.12 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
Around 52% higher memory clock speed: 1026 MHz vs 676 MHz

Launch date	15 March 2011 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 390 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec vs 3.12 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1026 MHz vs 676 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9800 XXL

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	ATI Radeon 9800 XXL
PassMark - G3D Mark	1557
PassMark - G2D Mark	382
Geekbench - OpenCL	5750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	18.461
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	354.392
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.511
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	41.941
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3322
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2488
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3322
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	322

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	ATI Radeon 9800 XXL
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rage 9
Code name	GF116	R360
Launch date	15 March 2011	1 October 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$149
Place in performance rating	1019	not rated
Price now	$287.59
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	7.49
Technical info
Core clock speed	1800 MHz	390 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	100 °C
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec	3.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	116 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	117 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	2x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	16x PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	8.25" (21 cm)
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin	Floppy
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.2	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	98.4 GB / s	21.63 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1026 MHz	676 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI