NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
VS
AMD Radeon E8860
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
VS
AMD Radeon E8860

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon E8860. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

531
Place in performance rating
529
6.21
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GF116
Code name
Venus
Desktop
Type
Desktop
15 March 2011 (10 years ago)
Release date
25 January 2014 (7 years ago)
$149
Launch price (MSRP)
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$141 (0.9x MSRP)
Price now
no data
1.47
Value for money
no data
GF116
GPU code name
Venus
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon E8860 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

192
Pipelines
640
900 MHz
Core clock speed
575 MHz
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Boost Clock
625 MHz
1,170 million
Transistor count
1,500 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
116 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
37 Watt
28.8 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
25.00
691.2 gflops
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
100 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
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192
CUDA cores
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192
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
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Boost clock speed
625 MHz
1,170 million
Number of transistors
1,500 million
116 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
37 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon E8860.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
8.25" (21 cm)
Length
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One 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
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+
SLI options
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16x PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
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4.376" (11.1 cm)
Height
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon E8860 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
192 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
4.1 GB/s
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
98.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon E8860, the size and number of monitors.

Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI
Display Connectors
4x mini-DisplayPort
+
Multi monitor support
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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Internal
Audio input for HDMI
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+
HDMI
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon E8860 is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
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+
CUDA
no data
+
DSR
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon E8860. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.2
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD Radeon E8860 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti or AMD Radeon E8860 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD Radeon E8860
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD Radeon E8860
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD Radeon E8860
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD Radeon E8860
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD Radeon E8860
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

More memory bandwidth (98.4 GB/s vs 72 GB/s)

Advantages of AMD Radeon E8860

0.02% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (640 vs 192)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Less power consumption (37 Watt vs 116 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (2 GB vs 1 GB)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti or AMD Radeon E8860?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon E8860 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti versus AMD Radeon E8860 performance benchmarks comparison

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