Zotac AMP! GeForce GTX 550 Ti Review

Geforce GTX 550 Ti is based on Nvidia GF116 Codename. Zotac got 2 cards from GF116 there are; a vanilla version with a custom cooler at stock settings and an overclocked AMP! version, which is cooler version and really make me impress. Talking can’t make you believe than let see the result.

AMP! GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Zotac

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            As we’ve come to expect, Zotac’s custom cooler is an attractive offering that blends matte black plastic with patches of yellow metal mesh. A central fan resides on a sizeable chunk of aluminum, which lets Zotac crank the core clocks way up. The stock GeForce GTX 550 Ti has a core clock of 900MHz, but Zotac brought the AMP!’s up to 1GHz. The memory clock was also tweaked, from 1,025MHz to 1,100MHz. The GF116 features 192 CUDA cores, 32 texture units, 24 ROPs, and a memory subsystem that consists of a 192-bit memory bus and 1GB of GDDR5.

The card gets power from a single 6-pin PCI Express connector, and the backplane features a pair of DVI connectors, an HDMI port, and a DisplayPort. In the box, Zotac threw in a DVIto- VGA adapter, a 6-pin PCI-E power adapter, and a driver disc that includes the Zotac Boost Premium software bundle, which consists of the Cooliris browser plug-in, XBMC, Kylo browser for HTPCs, and CUDA-accelerated demos of vReveal and Nero Vision Xtra.

In the benchmarks, that extra 100MHz core clock propels Zotac’s AMP! GeForce GTX 550Ti to a sizeable lead over a stock clocked GTX 550 Ti in 3DMark and roughly 2fps faster in the DX11 games. For a $15 premium, this card is one of the fastest GTX 550 Ti cards you’ll find.

 

Test system specs: Processor: 3.46GHz Intel Core i7-990X; Motherboard: Intel DX58SO2; RAM: 6GB Patriot Sector 7 DDR3-1600; Hard drive: 600GB WD

VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX; PSU: Antec TruePower Quattro 1200

Zotac AMP!               Sparkle

GeForce                     GeForce

Specs & Scores        GTX 550 Ti                GTX 550 Ti

Price                           $154.99                      $139.99

Core Clock                1,000MHz                  900MHz

Memory Clock           1,100MHz                   1,026MHz

Memory Interface     192-bit                        192-bit

Memory                      1GB GDDR5             1GB GDDR5

3DMark 11 Performance

3DMark Overall        P2716                        P2472

Graphics Score        2434                           2203

Physics Score          8075                           8158

Combined Score      2418                           2189

Graphics Test 1*       11.48                          10.39

Graphics Test 2*       11.76                          10.64

Graphics Test 3*       15.13                          13.78

Graphics Test 4*       7.16                            6.47

Physics Test*            25.64                          25.9

Combined Test*       11.25                          10.19

Ungine Heaven

FPS                            15.4                            14

Score 389 353

Games 1,920 X 1,200

Left 4 Dead 2

(8XAA, 16XAF)         66.1                            60.74

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:

Call of Pripyat (4XAA)

18.4                            16.7

Aliens vs. Predator

(4XAA)                       19.5                            17.7

2,560 x 1,600

Left 4 Dead 2

(8XAA, 16XAF)         42.59                          39.4

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:

Call of Pripyat (4XAA)

9.4                               8.7

Aliens vs. Predator

(4XAA)                       12                                10.9

*fps

Driver: ForceWare 267.59

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