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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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Metro 2033
Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was developed by 4A Games in the Ukraine. The game is played from the perspective of a character named Artyom. The story takes place in post-apocalyptic Moscow, mostly inside the metro station where the player's character was raised (he was born before the war, in an unharmed city), but occasionally the player has to go above ground on certain missions and scavenge for valuables.
This is another extremely demanding game. Settings were left at High quality and Advanced DirectX 11 settings were left at default. The section of Metro 2033 tested was the Prologue with fraps polling from when you are climbing up the ladder until opening the door to exit the metro station. This section includes many features found throughout the game including four creatures which attack you before you exit the building, dense particles, ammo in cabinets, a few computer controlled sections and, of course, Miller, your first companion.
Benchmark Results: For the third time in a row the ASUS Ultimate GTX550 Ti was in the 30+ FPS range, while the NVIDIA reference design was just shy of that level of performance. It's becoming clear to us why ASUS overclocked their card by 115MHz as to get the average framerate above 30FPS it is needed! The ASUS Ultimate GTX 550 Ti was 10FPS faster than the EVGA GeForce GTS 450 FTW Edition card, which is impressive as that is a 44% performance improvement!
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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 |
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