NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and ATI Radeon X850 PRO 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 X850 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
3.6x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 507 MHz
4.7x more texture fill rate: 28.8 billion / sec vs 6.08 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
21.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1552 vs 73
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 376 vs 157

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 March 2011 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed	1800 MHz vs 507 MHz
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec vs 6.08 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1552 vs 73
PassMark - G2D Mark	376 vs 157

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1040 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Memory clock speed	1040 MHz vs 1026 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1552

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

376

157

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1552	73
PassMark - G2D Mark	376	157
Geekbench - OpenCL	5772
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 X850 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	R400
Code name	GF116	R480
Launch date	15 March 2011	1 December 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$149	$279
Place in performance rating	1061	1064
Price now	$287.59
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	7.49
Technical info
Core clock speed	1800 MHz	507 MHz
CUDA cores	192
Floating-point performance	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	100 °C
Pipelines	192
Texture fill rate	28.8 billion / sec	6.08 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	116 Watt
Transistor count	1,170 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x 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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	8.25" (21 cm)
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.2	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	98.4 GB / s	33.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1026 MHz	1040 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI