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ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX 550 Ti Video Card Review

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: ASUS UL ENGTX550 Ti DC/DI/1GD5
Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 - 12:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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GeForce GTX 550 Ti Overclocking

A performance analysis of the ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX 550 Ti video card wouldn't be complete without some overclocking results, so we fired up EVGA's Precision overclocking software utility to see what we can do with this video card.


ASUS GeForce GTX 550-Ti Video Card GPU-Z 0.5.2 Details

Using the EVGA Precision software utility for the GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics card is one of the easiest ways to overclock a video card.

ASUS GeForce GTX 550-Ti Video Card Overclocked

The highest overclock that we could get on the ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX 550 Ti card was 1075MHz on the core, 2150MHz on the shaders and 1200MHz on the 1024MB of GDDR5 memory. This overclock was 100% stable on games and the synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark Vantage. We gamed on this setting for a few hours and feel safe to call it 100% stable.  This is an impressive 175MHz beyond the stock core clock speeds found on the NVIDIA reference design.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti Graphics Card at 900MHz/1800MHz/1025MHz:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Video Card

ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX 550 Ti Graphics Card at 1015MHz/2030MHz/1050MHz:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Video Card

ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card at 1075MHz/2150MHz/1200MHz:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 5850 Video Card

We saw 3DMark Vantage go up from X5190 to X6259, which is a 20.6% or 1069 3DMark jump in performance from the NVIDIA reference design to the ASUS Ultimate card with it's peak overclock! Let's see what it does in real games.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Graphics Card Overclocked
The jump from 1015MHz to 1075MHz on the ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX 550 Ti core clock helped boost performance by 8% in AvP at a resolution of 1920x1200.  Compared to the NVIDIA reference design we saw a very nice 18.4% performance increase.

Next Page - Final Thoughts & Conclusions


Review Index
Page 1 - The ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX550-Ti
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 5 - Just Cause 2
Page 6 - Metro 2033
Page 7 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 8 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 9 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 10 - 3DMark 11
Page 11 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 12 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 13 - Temperature Testing
Page 14 - Power Consumption
Page 15 - GeForce GTX 550 Ti Overclocking
Page 16 - Final Thoughts & Conclusions