NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti: Coming Up Short At $150
by Ryan Smith on March 15, 2011 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield: Bad Company 2
Now approaching a year old, Bad Company 2 remains as one of the cornerstone DX11 games in our benchmark suite. Based on the Frostbite 1.5 engine, it will be replaced in complexity by the DX10+ only Frostbite 2 engine (and Battlefield 3) later this year. As BC2 doesn’t have a built-in benchmark or recording mode, here we take a FRAPS run of the jeep chase in the first act, which as an on-rails portion of the game provides very consistent results and a spectacle of explosions, trees, and more.
Whether Bad Company 2 favors AMD or NVIDIA cards seems to have more to do with phases of the moon than logic. In this case though it works against NVIDIA, leading to another poor showing for the GTX 550. Here we’re looking at the GTX 550 falling to the 5770 by 2%, meanwhile there’s a 25% gap to close versus the 6850. Compared to NVIDIA’s other cards however we see a sizable 23% pickup versus the GTS 450, and a smaller 17% gap against the GTX 460. We don’t normally use AA on this game at 1680, so the GTX 550 should have enough power to run it with 4x AA at the cost of a bit of the silky-smooth 68fps, or alternatively going up to 1920 without any AA.
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vedye - Thursday, March 17, 2011 - link
Thanks for pointing that out!! But the author will not respond to you. Anantech is already proven pro-Nvidia. If I were them, I would ignore ur post as well. Just keep pretending.Demon-Xanth - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
From the consumer standpoint, why would I get a 550 over a 460? I read through this and can't come up with a single reason.Gami - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
there's no point in getting it.. they need to eliminate the stock of the 400 series first, from all outlets, so that this thing would actually have a chance to be even thought of being bought.Taft12 - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
Soon that reason will be "the GTX 460 768MB is not available", but that is not yet true, and indeed there is no reason to buy this card.qwertymac93 - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
how did they get 1GB of memory with a 192-bit bus? Are you sure its not 768MB?Demon-Xanth - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
There's a whole page on that. Plus many comments on other pages.z3nny - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
Yeah, RTFA.Lolimaster - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
So after near 1.5years HD5770 is the better buy for mid value customers. Right now in many places HD6850 costs less than the 460 1GB and performs better (even more with the new 11.4pre and future (mejolnir "driver" updates)qwertymac93 - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
never mind, read the next page... And now i wish you guys had an edit function...z3nny - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - link
It would have helped if you RTFA first before posting like a fool.