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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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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
The events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat unfold shortly after the end of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl following the ending in which Strelok destroys the C-Consciousness. Having discovered the open path to the Zone's center, the government decides to stage a large-scale operation to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat utilizes the XRAY 1.6 Engine, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent. There is also extensive support for older versions of DirectX, meaning that Call of Pripyat is also compatible with older DirectX 8, 9, 10 and 10.1 graphics cards.
The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: CoP has no internal benchmarking tools built into the game engine, but they do have a standalone benchmark available that we used for our testing purposes. The screen capture above shows the main window of the benchmark with our settings. Notice we are running Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting "DX11" as our renderer.
Under the advanced settings we enabled tessellation and 4x MSAA. We didn't enable ambient occlusion as we wanted to use these test settings for mainstream cards down the road and these settings should be tough enough to stress any and all DX11 enabled video cards.
Benchmark Results: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat proved to be more than playable at pretty much any single monitor resolution on the ASUS Ultimate GeForce GTX 550 Ti video card. The ASUS designed card was ~11% faster than the NVIDIA reference design in this benchmark.
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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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