GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 7670 OEM

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Jan 2012
Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    163%
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Around 63% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7670 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 7670 OEM
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsTurks (Turks XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs40 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs716 million
Shaders192vs480
Compute Units4vs6
Core clock900 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 7670 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 7670 OEM
TDP116 wattsvs66 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs5 Jan 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    6.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    19.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    2490
  • Radeon HD 7670 OEM
    1520

Points (higher is better)