NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti Debut With Zotac, MSI and Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 10:23 AM EDT

NVIDIA continues to flesh out their GeForce GTX 500 series line-up, this time with a new GPU targeted at more mainstream, budget conscious gamers. The new GeForce GTX 550 Ti which is being introduced today, like the other members of the GeForce GTX 500 series, is based upon a refinement and update to a GeForce 400 series GPU (in this case the GTS 450), but there’s more going on under the hood here than a respin and a new transistor mix. More on that a little later, though.

The new GeForce GTX 550 Ti improves upon the previous-gen GTS 450 in a number of ways, all of which enhance performance, but the GTX 550 targets a price point and performance level below the GTX 460...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti Debut With Zotac, MSI and Asus

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