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: 1553 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 1553 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
1553
73
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
376
157
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti ATI Radeon X850 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 1553 73
PassMark - G2D Mark 376 157
Geekbench - OpenCL 5767
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