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GTX 550-Ti

Average Bench: 9.89% (214th of 630)

Based on 34,633 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1244 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Poor: 9%Average: 9.89% Great: 11%

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Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GTX 550-Ti averaged 90.1% 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) 32.6fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 34.6fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GTX 550-Ti is just 1.35%. 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) 33.5fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 29.2fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 34,633 samples)
Rank 2149.89%
Min Avg Max
28.6 Lighting 32.6 35.6
29.6 Reflection 33.5 36.2
23.5 Parallax 29.2 32.2
8.57% 31.8 fps
Min Avg Max
28.7 MRender 31.9 34.4
32.7 Gravity 34.6 37
26.7 Splatting 33.6 37.2
10% 33.4 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: 353.30
9.91% Terrible
Lighting 32.6
Reflection 33.3
Parallax 28.9
9% 31.6 fps
MRender 31.9
Gravity 34.7
Splatting 33.7
10% 33.4 fps
Asus(1043 83BE) 1GB
CLim: 910 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
9.9% Terrible
Lighting 33.2
Reflection 34
Parallax 29.7
9% 32.3 fps
MRender 32.3
Gravity 34.5
Splatting 34.6
10% 33.8 fps
Device(0000 0000) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
9.79% Terrible
Lighting 33.1
Reflection 33.5
Parallax 29.7
9% 32.1 fps
MRender 31.9
Gravity 34.1
Splatting 33.7
10% 33.2 fps
Device(0000 0000) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1026 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13
9.76% Terrible
Lighting 32.9
Reflection 33.3
Parallax 29.6
9% 31.9 fps
MRender 31.9
Gravity 34
Splatting 34.3
10% 33.4 fps
Gigabyte(1458 3536) 1GB
CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1025 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35
9.75% Terrible
Lighting 32.8
Reflection 33.5
Parallax 29.3
9% 31.9 fps
MRender 31.8
Gravity 34
Splatting 34.3
10% 33.4 fps
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 23,623,590 GPUs tested.

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Based on statistics from 34,633 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (Approx. $250 @ launch in Mar '11)
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Device(0000 0000) 13% 10% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 1556) 11% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83BE) 9% 10% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3536) 8% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83C2) 7% 10% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 5194) 5% 10% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 351A) 4% 10% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2610) 4% 10% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 089C) 4% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 838C) 4% 10% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1557) 3% 11% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2612) 3% 10% ± 0%
Gainward(10B0 0401) 3% 10% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1559) 3% 10% ± 0%
PNY(196E 089C) 2% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83BC) 2% 11% ± 0%
Device(1B0A 90A2) 2% 10% ± 0%
Gigabyte(1458 3537) 2% 10% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 2059) 2% 10% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 1554) 1% 10% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1190) 1% 10% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 5194) 1% 10% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0000) 1% 9% ± 1%
Gainward(10B0 0801) 1% 11% ± 0%
Device(107D 2734) 1% 10% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1217) 1% 10% ± 0%
MSI(1462 809D) 1% 9% ± 0%
Device(7377 0000) 0% 10% ± 0%
MSI(1462 2368) 0% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 839E) 0% 10% ± 0%
Device(172F 0A65) 0% 10% ± 0%
Asus(1043 83D8) 0% 10% ± 0%
POV(1ACC 551C) 0% 10% ± 0%
Sanyo(144D 8099) 0% 10% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 085A) 0% 8% ± 0%
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Workstation 23%
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CPU
Core i7-3770Intel  $190Bench 64%, 152,961 samples2,719x
Core i7-2600Intel  $202Bench 58%, 95,162 samples2,698x
Core i5-2400Intel  $87Bench 55%, 85,097 samples1,903x
GPU
GTX 550-TiNvidia  $250Bench 10%, 34,633 samples1x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $75Bench 106%, 546,937 samples1,190x
A400 240GBKingston  $32Bench 64%, 115,132 samples848x
A400 120GBKingston  $22Bench 59%, 64,852 samples832x
RAM
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 283,437 samples2,313x
4x2GBUnknownBench 24%, 119,396 samples1,581x
1x4GBUnknownBench 26%, 91,552 samples752x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 33% - Below average Total price: $515

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 Comments

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

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USA-User
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6,106

Terrible (edit your comment) Add link

9 days ago.

GBR-User
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3,862

Good

1 month ago.

Good for office work and many video games but dont be hoping for high frames when using this i get roughly 20 to 40 fps on games such as COD BO3 and PUBG so on...

DEU-User
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3,861

Good

2 days ago.

I have it I want to replace it with a 950 or 960 or 970 In compares , the gtx 550 ti is very bad at running games that they released from after 2015 I hate gtx 550 ti

BRA-User
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3,097

Good

13 days ago.

Cause these are one of the worse GPU EVER MADE

AUS-User
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2,576

Good

9 months ago.

Oustanding performance to price(2nd, used)

GamingEliot
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494

Poor

21 months ago.

Just buy a GTX 460 if you're looking for a cheap graphics card used. I can't justify the used $50 dollar price tag given that with the same money you can get a 470 or for cheaper a 460.

gvrax
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372

Terrible

2 years ago.

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Poor

2 years ago.

Runs rather hot and loud during periods of intense usage

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