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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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Released March, 2011
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
- 900 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
6.1 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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Released March, 2009
ZOTAC GeForce GTS 250
- 750 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR3
6.4 Out of 10
by Chris-Angelini (Jun, 2013)But Nvidia’s board partners deviated from that configuration unanimously, going to market mostly with two-or three-fan coolers, which I frankly don’t care for as much.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 550 Ti vs GTS 250 among Desktop GPUs
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher clock speed | 900 MHz | vs | 750 MHz | 20% higher clock speed | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 4,104 MHz | vs | 2,300 MHz | Around 80% higher effective memory 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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| Significantly higher texture rate | 121 GTexel/s | vs | 28.8 GTexel/s | Around 4.2x higher texture rate | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 30.24 GPixel/s | vs | 7.2 GPixel/s | Around 4.2x higher pixel rate | |||
| More texture mapping units | 64 | vs | 32 | Twice as many texture mapping units | |||
| 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
Battlefield 3
PassMark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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