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.
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: 1554 vs 73
- 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 375 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 | 1554 vs 73 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 375 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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti | ATI Radeon X850 PRO |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 1554 | 73 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 375 | 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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 9.0b |
OpenGL | 4.2 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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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 |
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