GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1 GB Round-Up

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The crew at Neoseeker have rounded up a couple GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1 GB video cards today and put them to the test. Here's a quote from the full review:

The GTX 550 Ti is positioned in a very price sensitive segment of the market, as is the case with all sub $200 graphics cards. This is because casual and mainstream gamers alike tend to look for the best performing product at the lowest price point possible. Also, graphics cards in this segment tend to have a four year upgrade cycle, which makes long term performance extremely important.
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Looks like a decent budget card. I don't know if I could deal with that nasty heatsink though.
 
Was fairly amazed at it's SLI capability. Nvidia sure has improved their SLI drivers.
 
major price fail here. why nvidia keeps doing this with cards in this segment I don't know.
 
Thats a big gap between the 550 and the 560. Wonder how long before we have some kind of gtx 555 or gtx 560 SN (slightly neutered).
 
nVidia pricing has never made a damn bit of sence to me.
The GTX 550 Ti 192 Processor Cores, 192-bit bus, 1 gig of ram
$159.99 + $7.56 Shipping

The GTX 460 336 Processor Cores, 192-bit bus 1 gig of ram
$124.99 with Rebate and Free shipping
 
This wouldn't be a bad card if it were cheaper.

At $149 for the cheapest one on Newegg, there is actually a GTX460 (768Mb) that's cheaper at $145, and for $16 more you can have a GTX460 1GB.

It just doesn't make sense to buy the 550 with the prices of the 460.

That being said, people who don't do their research or don't know what they are doing will still buy it. They always do. "well 550 is 90 higher than 460, it must be better!" :p
 
this is basically just a renamed 450. wtf. such a waste. they could've at least renamed the 460se or something.
 
Zarathustra[H];1036983501 said:
This wouldn't be a bad card if it were cheaper.

At $149 for the cheapest one on Newegg, there is actually a GTX460 (768Mb) that's cheaper at $145, and for $16 more you can have a GTX460 1GB.

It just doesn't make sense to buy the 550 with the prices of the 460.

That being said, people who don't do their research or don't know what they are doing will still buy it. They always do. "well 550 is 90 higher than 460, it must be better!" :p
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Did you catch the post above yours?
Newegg Asus GTX 460 336 Processor Cores, 192-bit bus 1 gig of ram
$124.99 with Rebate and Free shipping
Thats the one gig ram not the 768Mb version for less than $125 shipped. : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121390
 
The GTX 550 TI is a pretty decent card for $150. It will be an even better card once it gets manufacturer rebates. Right now 460 768mb is usually faster, but you can run into memory limitations faster wtih 768mb than 1GB.
Don't forget that you can overclock these puppies to up to 1.1ghz core. That's pretty impressive for a midlevel card.

The unheralded advance that comes with this series of cards is Nvidia has finally found a way to mismatch memory and bus sizes. It's a 192 bit bus card but with a full 1GB of VRAM.
So using this adaptive memory interface, Nvidia can ship the next generation GTX 680 with 2GB of VRAM and a 384 bit bus instead of having to put 3GB of VRAM on it.
I'm looking forward to it! A 15% performance improvement and same 1.5GB of VRAM was not enough for me!
 
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These cards still don't do 7.1 audio via HDMI in the same manner as the ATI parts, right?
 
Evil said:
Was fairly amazed at it's SLI capability. Nvidia sure has improved their SLI drivers.
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As I understand, based on how SLI works, SLI will always scale better on low end video cards than on high end ones, as the PCIe bus and SLI bridge don't bottleneck the performance as much as with high end cards.
 
Ranari said:
This would be a great card if it were $100
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Exactly. At $150 it doesn't make sense. I just bought a EVGA 1gb 460 for $150. You can't always find a 460 at $150 but it's easy to find them at $170 which still doesn't make sense to pay $150 for a 550.
 
griff30 said:
Did you catch the post above yours?
Newegg Asus GTX 460 336 Processor Cores, 192-bit bus 1 gig of ram
$124.99 with Rebate and Free shipping
Thats the one gig ram not the 768Mb version for less than $125 shipped. : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121390
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The card you linked above is 768MB...

- Lowest price for 1GB 460, AR is $146
- Lowest price for a card I would buy is $170 (any one but the cheap MSI)

550Ti rebates pretty much available since day one. Nvidia has to let the 400 series card stock clear out. There are apparently quite a few 460's in the pipeline.
 
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