14 DAY TRIAL // Details about the upcoming GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics card seem to pour in lately, as just a few moments after Nvidia made official its specification and release date, the very first benchmarks of the card and overclocking results have made their way onto the Web.
While these performance figures should be taken with a huge grain of salt as they were dropped in VR-Zone's inbox by an anonymous source, they do fall into line with the numbers provided by the Nvidia slides we posted earlier.
The values were obtained using a well-overclocked Sandy Bridge system paired with a GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics card, under the Lost Planet 2 and 3DMark 11 benchmarks.
In the first scenario, Nvidia's upcoming card proved to be about 25% faster than both the GTS 450 and the Radeon HD 5670 while 3DMark 11 painted an entirely different picture as it showed the GTX 550 Ti coming under AMD's mainstream solutions(although it surpasses the GTS 450).
As far as overclocking is concerned, the card managed to reach a 1050MHz GPU speed, 16% more than its stock frequency, which will send the 3DMark 11 score past P3000.
The GTX 550 Ti uses a fully unlocked version of the GF106 core, dubbed GF116-400 by Nvidia, which packs 192 CUDA cores, 32 texturing units, 24 ROP units and a 192-bit wide memory bus.
Just as we reported before, the GPU clock is set at 900MHz while the 1GB of GDDR5 memory runs at 4,100MHz, providing 70% more bandwidth than the GTS 450, the card it is meant to replace.
In addition, the card has a TDP of only 116W (10W more than the GTS 450), features two-way SLI support, two dual-link DVI-I ports and one mini HDMI port.
The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is expected to be officially launched on March 15, less than two weeks from now.
