GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6610

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon HD 6610
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Mar 2013
Radeon HD 6610

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6610

77 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.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 6610
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsRedwood (Redwood PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs627 million
Shaders192vs400
Compute Units4vs5
Core clock900 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs32vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 6610
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 6610
TDP116 wattsvs39 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs20 Mar 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6610
    5.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6610
    13.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6610
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6610
    520.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better