14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA's partners, of course, unveiled or are still unveiling their own iterations of the new video card for the mainstream market, and it seems Colorful has finally taken its own turn.
End-users might know of the fact that NVIDIA, just a short while ago, released its latest 500 series graphics adapter.
The card in question is the GeForce GTX 550 Ti and is intended for the mainstream market, being less mighty than the GTX 560 but still more than fit for gamers that don;'t have the best budget in the world.
Of course, this announcement was inevitably followed by NVIDA's many partners unleashing their custom versions of the controller.
Galaxy, Zotac and Micro-Star International (MSI) are just three of the companies that completed GTX 550 Ti boards of their own.
Now, Colorful has added its name to that particular list, with a distinct iteration of the video adapter, (with a two-fan cooler) that can operate in two modes, thanks to the existence of two BIOSes.
One of them sticks to the reference clocks while the other activates a nice amount of factory overclocking.
To be more specific, in its stock state, the GF116 GPU (graphics processing unit), the 192 CUDA cores (shaders) and the 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM have speeds of 900 MHz, 1,800 MHz and 4,100 MHz, respectively.
The Turbo BIOS pushed those three to 1000 MHz, 2,000 MHz and 4,400 MHz, respectively, so that even more demanding applications may run smoothly.
As for everything else, a memory interface of 192 bits is present, along with dual-DVI and mini HDMI connectors and the aforementioned cooler.
Dubbed iGame550Ti-1024M D5 Ymir, the newcomer should already be shipping in Asia and will reach Europe soon enough, 5-phase power design and all. Its price should be of around $149, like that of all other versions.