GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Feb 2012
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    167%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 67% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition

The Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
GPU NameGF116 (GF116-400-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size238 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,170 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders192vs640
Compute Units4vs10
Core clock900 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs32vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 550 TiRadeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
TDP116 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2011vs15 Feb 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    40.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    1280.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    2490
  • Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
    4170

Points (higher is better)