Review (Galaxy) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti: The Cheapest GTX 500 a Gamer Can Get

Test Platform

It’s time for the most interesting part: performance testing! The following hardware combination was used in our test. Scores from some other graphics card were also included for comparison purposes.

• Processor : Intel Core i7 930 @4 GHz (200×20)
• Motherboard : Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
• Graphics Card : NVIDIA GTX 500 & GTX 400 Series; AMD Radeon HD 6000 & HD 5700 Series
• Memory : 3×2GB Kingston HyperX blu. (@1600 MHz; 1.64 V)
• Storage : Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64 GB & SSDNow V Series 30 GB (no-RAID Configuration)
• Power Supply : Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 800 Watt
• Heatsink : Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
• Monitor : Philips 221E
• Input Devices : Genius (Keyboard and Mouse)
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
• Driver : Forceware 266.58, 266.66(NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti), 267.59(NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti); Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix

Test Results

First-person Shooter Game

Alien VS Predator

Setting: DirectX 11; Texture Quality-Very High; Shadow Quality-High; SSAO-On; AF x16; No-MSAA

Crysis Warhead

Setting: DirectX 10; Enthusiast Mode; No-AA

LEFT4DEAD 2

Setting: No-AA; AF-Trilinear; Maximum Quality

Metro 2033

Setting: DirectX 11; Very High; Advance DOF; No-Advance PhysX; AF x16; MSAA x4