GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs 460

older Released March, 2011

Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti

900 MHz
1 GB GDDR5

Clock speeds are improved as well out of the box but are not the highest we have seen today.

by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2011)

older Released October, 2010

Nvidia GeForce GTX 460

650 MHz
1 GB GDDR5

As mentioned before the overclock out of the box is great for novice users, but experienced overclockers may as well opt for a non-overclocked version and save some money.

by techPowerUp! (Aug, 2010)

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Nvidia GeForce GTX 460

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Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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Much higher clock speed

900 MHz

650 MHz

Around 40% higher clock speed

Higher effective memory clock speed

4,104 MHz

3,400 MHz

More than 20% higher effective memory clock speed

Higher memory clock speed

1,026 MHz

850 MHz

More than 20% higher memory clock speed

Lower TDP

116W

150W

Around 25% lower TDP

Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460

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More render output processors

8 more render output processors

More texture mapping units

24 more texture mapping units

Wider memory bus

256 bit

192 bit

Around 35% wider memory bus

memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

98.5 GB/s

GeForce GTX 460

108.8 GB/s

While NVIDIA perfected its Fermi architecture with the GeForce 500 Series allowing for higher clock speeds, it is also coming at higher power draw for the GTX 550 Ti.

GeForce GTX 550 Ti | by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2011)

pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

7.2 GPixel/s

GeForce GTX 460

9.1 GPixel/s

Mixed density memory chips help increase performance.

GeForce GTX 550 Ti | by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2011)

texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

28.8 GTexel/s

GeForce GTX 460

36.4 GTexel/s

Then when they decide to go big with 1920x1200 or 1920x1080, adding a second GTX 550 Ti in SLI should give them high-end performance that lets them play anything at HD resolutions.

GeForce GTX 550 Ti | by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2011)

floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

691.2 GFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

873.6 GFLOPS

shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

192

GeForce GTX 460

336

To accomplish this task, the GTX 550 Ti is based on new 40 nm GF116 silicon, which packs 192 shader cores, and a 192-bit GDDR5 interface.

GeForce GTX 550 Ti | by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2011)

texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

GeForce GTX 460

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		vs	460

	8.8 read review		9.0 read review	If you read our other GeForce GTX 460 reviews today you will have noticed that NVIDIA's reference design cooler is very quiet. GeForce GTX 460

gpu	GeForce GTX 550 Ti	460
GPU brand	Nvidia	Nvidia
GPU name	GF116	GF104
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed	900 MHz	650 MHz
Is dual GPU	No	No
Reference card	None	None
raw performance
Shading units	192	336
Texture mapping units	32	56
Render output processors	24	32
Pixel rate	7.2 GPixel/s	9.1 GPixel/s
Texture rate	28.8 GTexel/s	36.4 GTexel/s
Floating-point performance	691.2 GFLOPS	873.6 GFLOPS

memory	GeForce GTX 550 Ti	460
Memory clock speed	1,026 MHz	850 MHz
Effective memory clock speed	4,104 MHz	3,400 MHz
Memory bus	192 bit	256 bit
Memory	1,024 MB	1,024 MB
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth	98.5 GB/s	108.8 GB/s
noise and power
TDP	116W	150W