NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti: Coming Up Short At $150
by Ryan Smith on March 15, 2011 9:00 AM ESTSTALKER: Call of Pripyat
The third game in the STALKER series continues to build on GSC Game World’s X-Ray Engine by adding DX11 support, tessellation, and more. This also makes it another one of the highly demanding games in our benchmark suite.
STALKER is quite memory intensive, and at higher resolutions we see even 1GB cards trail off in performance. So the biggest benefit to 1GB over 768MB in today’s games can be seen here, where the GTX 550 comes the closest it ever will to the GTX 460 768MB, reducing its performance deficit to 9%. It’s also another good showing against the also 1GB GTS 450, with a 23% gain.
Against the Radeon cards however NVIDIA does poorly, as this game largely favors AMD. The 3rd and final loss to the 5770 is here, this time by 3%; the 6850 has a 25% gap to close in the meantime. The difference ultimately is going to come down to quality – at 32fps the GTX 550 is playable, but most people are going to want to turn down something like AA in order to get the framerate above 40fps for a smoother experience.
As for the AMP’s factory overclock, once more it helps to close the gap. The AMP picks up 10%, but it’s still not enough to get above 40fps.
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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.