Reviewers Liked
- Lots of overclocking headroom
- Very quiet cooling solution
- DirectX 11 ready
- 192-bit with a full 1GB of RAM
- Low power usage
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB GDDR5 PCIe
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Expert reviews and ratings
By Channel Pro
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Nvidia goes after the low-end again with the GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB. Is it a sub-£100 wonder?Rating: 3Average: 3 (1 vote) It’s easy to get pre-occupied with the ultra-high-end of the hardware market, especially after being wowed by the dual-GPU beast...
By Phoronix
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti is disappointing. For most of the Linux OpenGL tests carried out, the factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 550 Ti was slightly behind or right on par with the AMD Radeon HD 6770 graphics card, which is using a Evergreen-based...
By PC Advisor
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The performance difference means the GTX 550 TI will be inadequate to run games in the future a lot sooner than the 6870 will. In this lower end of the mid-range market, the MSI R6870 Hawk is a better purchase and our advice is to try and make your...
By Expert Reviews
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It's compact and power-efficient, but Nvidia's GeForce GTX 550 Ti doesn't have the grunt to match the competition from AMD....
By DigitalVersus
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This is clearly not the best card in the NVIDIA catalogue. We prefer the models from the previous generation or those higher up the current range. At this price level, better to look towards the...
By PC Pro
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Not much of an update to the existing architecture, but it does a reasonable job for the...
By hardwarezone.com.sg
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80
Beginning in November last year with the flagship GeForce GTX 580, NVIDIA has systematically refreshed and improved their Fermi offerings. Changes at the transistor level along with slight changes in the configuration of the core have vastly improved...
By LanOC Reviews
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Nvidia set out to create a card that is direct competition with AMD’s HD5770 and after seeing the cards performance I think they did a great job. Every in game test we ran showed the GTX 550 Ti outperforming the HD5770, only seeing the HD5770 edge out...
By Ninjalane
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Early in this review we pondered the question, can the GTX 550 Ti replace the GTS 450? Based on the benchmark numbers we would have to say that without a doubt the GTX 550 Ti would be a great replacement. Then again nVidia assured us that the...
By Techgage
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Ahh, the 'final thoughts' page... the one where I'm supposed to make use of my professionalism to conjure up a definitive answer as to whether or not the product at hand is "meh", "good", "great" or ":o!!!". For NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti, it's a...
By AnandTech
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Throughout the lifetime of the 400 series, NVIDIA launched 4 GPUs: GF100, GF104, GF106, and GF108. Launched in that respective order, they became the GTX 480, GTX 460, GTS 450, and GT 430. One of the interesting things from the resulting products...
By Hardware Canucks
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Over the last few months, NVIDIA’s revised Fermi architecture has been met with rightfully glowing praise so expectations were high for the latest member of the 500-series family. The GTX 550 Ti does boast some forward thinking technology in the form...
By HotHardware
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The GeForce GTX 550 Ti’s performance fell right in-line with expectations. Throughout our battery of tests, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, whether running at reference frequencies or overclocked from the factory like our Zotac, Asus, and MSI cards, clearly...
By Pureoverclock
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The simple fact right up front here is that the GeForce GTX 550 Ti continues the winning ways of the GTX 500 series cards. The price point of the 550 Ti, however, is far lower than its other siblings, and in fact this new card is really more of a...
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