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Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti based on its benchmarks, compute performance and noise and power.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 550 Ti vs GTS 250 among Desktop GPUs
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 4,104 MHz | vs | 2,300 MHz | Around 80% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 900 MHz | vs | 750 MHz | 20% higher clock speed | |||
| Better PassMark score | 1,926 | vs | 893 | Around 2.2x better PassMark score | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 98.5 GB/s | vs | 73.6 GB/s | Around 35% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Better cloud gate factor score | 13.73 | vs | 10.84 | More than 25% better cloud gate factor score | |||
| More render output processors | 24 | vs | 16 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 822 | vs | 180 | More than 4.5x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Lower TDP | 116W | vs | 150W | Around 25% lower TDP | |||
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| More texture mapping units | 64 | vs | 32 | Twice as many texture mapping units | |||
| Higher texture rate | 48 GTexel/s | vs | 28.8 GTexel/s | More than 65% higher texture rate | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,150 MHz | vs | 1,026 MHz | More than 10% higher memory clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GTS 250
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) 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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PassMark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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