eVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti SC

EVGA GTX 550 Ti SC review

Now we're starting to hit the real price jump, the EVGA GTX 550 Ti is nearly £20 more than the HD 6770 Vapor-X. By rights in the graphics world that should actually mean quite a lot with cards packed together like yellow fin tuna in Japanese killing farms. Tip out your wallet right now and you can almost guarantee there's a graphics card available for that exact amount of cash. To the penny. The step up from the AMD HD 5770/6770 though doesn't yield the sort of performance returns you might, quite reasonably, expect from the facts and figures on the specs sheet. This here is the generational refresh of the ageing GTS 450, as noted by the GF 116 GPU as opposed to the GF 106 chip. Compared with its older brother the GTX 550 Ti does represent progress, with performance improving fairly significantly along with the improvements in silicon, especially in this EVGA Superclocked version with its much higher clock speed. As well as a generally higher clockspeed the make-up of the GTX 550 Ti has changed quite significantly with this newer generation of cards coming with twice the ROPs count as the older card. At 24 ROPs that should make for some serious gaming credentials.