Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti Review: Bridging The Budget Gap

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Nvidia has a sizable gap in its product line between the GeForce GTS 450 and the GeForce GTX 460 768 MB. The company is filling that gap with an all-new card called the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Is this product a worthy competitor for AMD's Radeon HD 5770?

Benchmark Results: Crysis 2

Can it play Crysis? Yes.

It sure can. We’ve benched this title at the lowest ‘gamer’ detail setting, but it still looks very good (probably better than most shooters out there at their highest settings).

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti manages playable 1920x1080 performance at this setting with a minimum frame rate of 33 FPS. The game seems to favor GeForce cards, with the Radeon HD 5770 barely showing any advantage over the GeForce GTX 450. Once again, the GeForce GTX 460 768MB leads the pack by a notable margin.

Don Woligroski
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Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.