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    GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

    GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 25 Oct 2016
    GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 15 Mar 2011
    GeForce GTX 550 Ti

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

    41 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 550 Ti .
    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

    Supports PhysX
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 550 Ti
    GPU NameGP107 (GP107-400-A1)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
    Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
    Die Size132 mm²vs238 mm²
    Transistors3,300 millionvs1,170 million
    Shaders768vs192
    Compute Units6vs4
    Core clock1290 MHzvs900 MHz
    ROPs32vs24
    TMUs48vs32

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 550 Ti
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1752 MHz
    7008 MHz effective    		vs1026 MHz
    4104 MHz effective
    Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1050 TiGeForce GTX 550 Ti
    TDP75 wattsvs116 watts
    Release Date25 Oct 2016vs15 Mar 2011

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
      41.30 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      7.20 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
      61.90 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      28.80 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
      112.10 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      98.50 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
      1981.40 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
      691.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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