NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 11 expert reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

4
Average:

2
Bad:

5

Pros:

Lots of overclocking headroom.
Very quiet cooling solution.
DirectX 11 ready.

Cons:

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Last revision on June 19, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Lots of overclocking headroom
Very quiet cooling solution
DirectX 11 ready
192-bit with a full 1GB of RAM
Low power usage

Expert reviews and ratings

Nvidia goes after the low-end again with the GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB. Is it a sub-£100 wonder?Rating: 3Average: 3 (1 vote) It’s easy to get pre-occupied with the ultra-high-end of the hardware market, especially after being wowed by the dual-GPU beast...

By Channel Pro on January 26, 2012

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti is disappointing. For most of the Linux OpenGL tests carried out, the factory-overclocked GeForce GTX 550 Ti was slightly behind or right on par with the AMD Radeon HD 6770 graphics card, which is using a Evergreen-based...

By Phoronix on October 21, 2011

The performance difference means the GTX 550 TI will be inadequate to run games in the future a lot sooner than the 6870 will. In this lower end of the mid-range market, the MSI R6870 Hawk is a better purchase and our advice is to try and make your...

By PC Advisor on July 29, 2011

It's compact and power-efficient, but Nvidia's GeForce GTX 550 Ti doesn't have the grunt to match the competition from AMD....

By Expert Reviews on April 06, 2011

This is clearly not the best card in the NVIDIA catalogue. We prefer the models from the previous generation or those higher up the current range. At this price level, better to look towards the...

By DigitalVersus on April 06, 2011

Not much of an update to the existing architecture, but it does a reasonable job for the...

By PC Pro on March 22, 2011

Beginning in November last year with the flagship GeForce GTX 580, NVIDIA has systematically refreshed and improved their Fermi offerings. Changes at the transistor level along with slight changes in the configuration of the core have vastly improved...

By hardwarezone.com.sg on March 15, 2011

Nvidia set out to create a card that is direct competition with AMD’s HD5770 and after seeing the cards performance I think they did a great job. Every in game test we ran showed the GTX 550 Ti outperforming the HD5770, only seeing the HD5770 edge out...

By LanOC Reviews on March 15, 2011

Early in this review we pondered the question, can the GTX 550 Ti replace the GTS 450? Based on the benchmark numbers we would have to say that without a doubt the GTX 550 Ti would be a great replacement. Then again nVidia assured us that the...

By Ninjalane on March 15, 2011

Ahh, the 'final thoughts' page... the one where I'm supposed to make use of my professionalism to conjure up a definitive answer as to whether or not the product at hand is "meh", "good", "great" or ":o!!!". For NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti, it's a...

By Techgage on March 23, 2011

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