Gigabyte GeForce GTX 550 Ti OC Graphics Card Review

COD: Black Ops
Black Ops is a mainstream game that is famed for it’s fast-paced multiplayer gameplay. In a game like that, it is vital that your graphics card doesn’t stutter once or you may find yourself in a world of online pain. Black Ops is not as graphically intensive as the majority of PC games out there, but it still entertains a large number of people, and the GTX 550 is the kind of card I would expect someone who plays Black Ops to use who is getting into PC gaming. I used FRAPS to test a section of singleplayer gameplay with many more explosions and eye candy than you are likely to see in any online battle.

In this game we can see that the GIGABYTE GTX 550 pulls away from the standard GTX 550 significantly. It leaves the GTX 450 and 5770 behind in the 1080p test, and when we take it down to 720p we can see that it beats all of it’s rival cards apart from the GTX 460. The stock GTX 550 also beats the 5770 convincingly when the resolution goes down. It would seem that resolution is the main limiting factor in the GTX 550’s performance which appears to be the theme on the other benchmarks we see.