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GTX 550-Ti

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Release date: Q1 2011.

Average Bench: 8.61% (309th of 700)

Based on 54,392 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1244 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Poor: 7%Average: 8.61% Great: 9%

Popular builds with this GPU

Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GTX 550-Ti averaged 91.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 9.84fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 10.3fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 550-Ti is just 2.42%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GTX 550-Ti performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 14.2fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 8.73fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 54,392 samples)
Rank 3098.61%
Min Avg Max
8 Lighting 9.84 10.7
9.9 Reflection 14.2 17.4
3.09 Parallax 8.73 11.1
8.03% 10.9 fps
Min Avg Max
11 MRender 14.9 16.3
9.7 Gravity 11.3 12.2
7.9 Splatting 10.3 11.6
9.73% 12.2 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
MSI(1462 2610) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13
8.73% Terrible
Lighting 10
Reflection 14.6
Parallax 9.5
8% 11.4 fps
MRender 15.2
Gravity 11.5
Splatting 10.3
10% 12.3 fps
EVGA(3842 1554) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
8.68% Terrible
Lighting 9.8
Reflection 14.1
Parallax 3.9
8% 9.27 fps
MRender 15.1
Gravity 11.5
Splatting 10.9
10% 12.5 fps
MSI(1462 2368) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1000 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13
8.54% Terrible
Lighting 9.8
Reflection 14.4
Parallax 9.6
8% 11.3 fps
MRender 14
Gravity 11.1
Splatting 10.7
10% 11.9 fps
MSI(1462 2610) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13
7.55% Terrible
Lighting 10.1
Reflection 14.4
Parallax 9.5
8% 11.3 fps
MRender 14.7
Gravity 11.3
Splatting 0.2
6% 8.73 fps
Nvidia(10DE 0000) 1GB
CLim: 783 MHz, MLim: 750 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
5.58% Terrible
Lighting 6.4
Reflection 9.6
Parallax 2
5% 6 fps
MRender 9.3
Gravity 7.4
Splatting 6.8
6% 7.83 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $250 @ launch in Mar '11)
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Device(0000 0000) 18% 8% ± 1%
Asus(1043 83BE) 12% 9% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1556) 9% 9% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 3536) 7% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83C2) 7% 9% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 5194) 5% 9% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0401) 4% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 838C) 4% 9% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3537) 3% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 089C) 3% 9% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2610) 3% 9% ± 0%
Device(1B0A 90A2) 3% 9% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 351A) 3% 9% ± 0%
PNY(196E 089C) 3% 9% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 0000) 3% 8% ± 1%
Zotac(19DA 1190) 2% 9% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1557) 2% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83BC) 1% 9% ± 0%
MSI(1462 809D) 1% 8% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2612) 1% 8% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1559) 1% 8% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 0801) 1% 10% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 2056) 1% 9% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1554) 1% 9% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 5194) 0% 9% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2368) 0% 8% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1217) 0% 8% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0401) 0% 8% ± 0%
Device(107D 2734) 0% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0901) 0% 7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 839E) 0% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0921) 0% 7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8419) 0% 9% ± 0%
Device(7377 0000) 0% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8412) 0% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0939) 0% 6% ± 0%
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Gaming 4%
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Desktop 66%
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Workstation
Workstation 4%
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CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples1,563x
Core i7-2600Intel  $131Bench 67%, 185,630 samples1,203x
Core i5-3470Intel  $200Bench 63%, 223,595 samples744x
GPU
GTX 550-TiNvidia  $250Bench 9%, 54,392 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $22Bench 66%, 424,288 samples674x
Virtual NVMe Disk 64GBVmwareBench 62%, 2,103 samples438x
A400 480GBKingston  $26Bench 74%, 237,487 samples323x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples469x
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples329x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples248x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 40% - Below average Total price: $569

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GPUPro
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Official site www.geforce.com/...

Added 8 years ago.
USA-User
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Disliked (edit your comment) Add link

13 days ago.

BRA-User
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4,387

Good

12 days ago.

Cause these are one of the worse GPU EVER MADE

AUS-User
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3,778

Excellent

11 months ago.

really good for money got mine for $20 and runs games great

UKR-User
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3,487

Good

6 months ago.

Served me for 9 good years Rest in Peace Gygabite GTX 550-Ti

ZAF-User
Avatar level
2,660

Excellent

5 months ago.

For a cheap gpu its actually decent for some games.

FIN-User
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2,406

Good

22 months ago.

This was the gpu that i used it was great back in the day....

SGP-User
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1,878

Good

1 day ago.

most good games run on low fps

BIH-User
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1,618

Excellent

3 months ago.

It is very good i played ark survival evolved somehow on it

Geicihg
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26

Average

2 years ago.

Can run plenty of old and simple 3D game, play movies, a bit old and cheap

tAnK
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8

Poor

5 years ago.

Runs rather hot and loud during periods of intense usage

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