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GTX 550-Ti

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Release date: Q1 2011.

Average Bench: 8.98% (271st of 667)

Based on 51,521 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1244 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Poor: 8%Average: 8.98% Great: 10%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GTX 550-Ti averaged 91.0% 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) 10.2fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 11.6fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 550-Ti is just 2.18%. 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) 15fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 9.42fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 51,521 samples)
Rank 2718.98%
Min Avg Max
8.8 Lighting 10.2 11.2
11.2 Reflection 15 18.1
3.2 Parallax 9.42 11.3
8.27% 11.6 fps
Min Avg Max
11.8 MRender 15.3 17
10 Gravity 11.6 12.5
8.88 Splatting 10.7 11.8
9.8% 12.5 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Gigabyte(1458 3536) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1025 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
8.99% Terrible
Lighting 10.2
Reflection 18.3
Parallax 9.6
8% 12.7 fps
MRender 15.7
Gravity 11.6
Splatting 10.8
10% 12.7 fps
MSI(1462 2612) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
8.96% Terrible
Lighting 10.3
Reflection 15.1
Parallax 10.6
8% 12 fps
MRender 15.7
Gravity 11.5
Splatting 0.2
10% 9.13 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 48,268,122 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 51,521 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $250 @ launch in Mar '11)
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Device(0000 0000) 13% 8% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1556) 10% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83C2) 10% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83BE) 8% 9% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3536) 6% 9% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 089C) 5% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 838C) 5% 9% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 5194) 4% 9% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2610) 4% 9% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 351A) 3% 10% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0401) 3% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0000) 3% 8% ± 0%
Device(1B0A 90A2) 3% 9% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1557) 3% 11% ± 2%
Zotac(19DA 1190) 2% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0401) 2% 8% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2612) 2% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83BC) 2% 10% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3537) 2% 10% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 5194) 2% 9% ± 1%
PNY(196E 089C) 2% 9% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 2056) 1% 10% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1559) 1% 9% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2368) 1% 9% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 55C2) 1% 7% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0801) 1% 10% ± 0%
MSI(1462 809D) 1% 9% ± 0%
Device(107D 2734) 1% 9% ± 0%
Device(172F 0A65) 0% 9% ± 1%
Asus(1043 839E) 0% 10% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 2059) 0% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83D8) 0% 9% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0921) 0% 8% ± 0%
Device(7377 0000) 0% 9% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1217) 0% 6% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0901) 0% 7% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8419) 0% 9% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 5515) 0% 9% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8412) 0% 9% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1554) 0% 9% ± 0%
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Gaming 5%
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Desktop 71%
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Workstation
Workstation 4%
Tree trunk

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CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $297Bench 74%, 255,028 samples2,898x
Core i7-2600Intel  $205Bench 72%, 158,627 samples2,486x
Core i5-2400Intel  $20Bench 69%, 151,269 samples1,731x
GPU
GTX 550-TiNvidia  $250Bench 9%, 51,521 samples1x
SSD
A400 240GBKingston  $30Bench 66%, 374,608 samples1,494x
A400 120GBKingston  $27Bench 59%, 154,515 samples824x
Virtual NVMe Disk 275GBParallelsBench 188%, 1,105 samples654x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 429,160 samples1,641x
4x2GBUnknownBench 24%, 186,007 samples1,094x
1x4GBUnknownBench 27%, 156,527 samples661x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 42% - Average Total price: $577

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 Comments

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

Added 6 years ago.
USA-User
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8,276

Excellent (edit your comment) Add link

19 days ago.

Works great for fast office PC

BRA-User
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3,985

Poor

23 days ago.

Cause these are one of the worse GPU EVER MADE

AUS-User
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3,386

Good

4 months ago.

Oustanding performance to price(2nd, used)

UKR-User
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3,255

Excellent

10 months ago.

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

ZAF-User
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2,376

Average

14 months ago.

For a cheap gpu its actually decent for some games.

FIN-User
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2,180

Good

4 months ago.

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

gvrax
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372

Terrible

4 years ago.

dinazzzaurazzzz

Geicihg
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18

Average

16 months ago.

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

tAnK
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Poor

3 years ago.

Runs rather hot and loud during periods of intense usage

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