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Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti based on its benchmarks.
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Released March, 2011
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
- 900 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
6 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2011)It makes for a good bargain, but even with overclocked speeds, things don't change much for the GTX 550 Ti in its competitive.
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Expected June, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GT 740
- 993 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
7.1 Out of 10
by hassan-mujtaba (May, 2014)The core clock is maintained at 993 MHz for the reference models but comes with boost clock which has been absent on the GK107 chips.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 550 Ti vs 740 among Desktop GPUs for under $200
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan and Cloud Gate Factor | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 30 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 30 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.1 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Slightly higher memory bandwidth | 98.5 GB/s | vs | 80.2 GB/s | Around 25% higher memory bandwidth | |||
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| More render output processors | 24 | vs | 16 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| Better cloud gate factor score | 13.73 | vs | 11.96 | Around 15% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| Higher battlefield 4 framerate | 48 | vs | 30 | 60% higher battlefield 4 framerate | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 993 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | More than 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 5,012 MHz | vs | 4,104 MHz | More than 20% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,253 MHz | vs | 1,026 MHz | More than 20% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 64W | vs | 116W | Around 45% lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GT 740
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Particle simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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