Newbie question: Specification and Performance mismatch.

Encephelon

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Jul 21, 2012
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Hello! I was trying to see if my card was good enough to play a game, and compared it to a friend's GPU that not only beat it in every single specification, but beat it handily.

The cards are GTX460 (my own) and GTX550TI (my friend's). I was kind of put out, because they can barely run this game, but apparently, the GTX460 performs better in practice by a decent margin. Or at least, that's what things are telling me.

1) Is this true?

2) How can this be true?