Gigabyte GeForce GTX 550 Ti OC Graphics Card Review
Jake Sedge / 14 years ago
Test Setup
So, we’ve had a good look at the card itself but the question is, what can it do? We have set up a few benchmarks to see how it performs. I have managed to acquire a few cards for comparison kindly provided various friends whose computers I had built for them and a few who had some older cards lying around. I proceeded to perform maintenance’ on the computers and after a lot of card swapping, I had plenty of results! Anyway, this process allowed me to get a good few cards for comparison that directly compete with the GIGABYTE GTX 550 OC.
Test System:
| Test System | |
|---|---|
| Processor (CPU) | AMD Phenom II X6 1055T |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H |
| Memory (RAM) | 4GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1600MHz |
| Graphics Card | Gigabyte GTX 550 Ti OC |
| Primary Hard Drive | Hitachi Deskstar 500GB |
| Power Supply | Coolermaster M520 |
| Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
The tools that we use for benchmarking graphics cards include:
- 3DMark 11
- Unigine Heaven 2.1
- Dirt 2
- COD: Black Ops
- Mafia II
We also use other tools to monitor certain aspects of the graphics card, this includes:
- CPUID HWMonitor
- Digital MultiMeter
- MSI Afterburner
- GPU-Z
