Radeon HD 4850 X2 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Summary
Radeon HD 4850 X2
132%
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4850 X2 |
| Around 32% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 550 Ti |
| 134 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4850 X2 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4850 X2
The Radeon HD 4850 X2 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | | GeForce GTX 550 Ti | |
|---|
| GPU Name | R700 (R700 PRO) | vs | GF116 (GF116-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 256 mm² | vs | 238 mm² |
| Transistors | 956 million | vs | 1,170 million |
| Shaders | 800 | vs | 192 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 625 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 24 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | | GeForce GTX 550 Ti | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit x2 | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 995 MHz
1990 MHz effective | vs | 1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 4850 X2 | | GeForce GTX 550 Ti | |
|---|
| TDP | 250 watts | vs | 116 watts |
| Release Date | 7 Nov 2008 | vs | 15 Mar 2011 |
Radeon HD 4850 X2
20.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
7.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850 X2
50.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
28.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850 X2
127.40 GB/s
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
98.50 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850 X2
2000.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
691.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 4850 X2
3300
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
2490
Points (higher is better)