As it became known, today NVIDIA officially presented showing the lowest card of the GeForce 500 – GTX 550 Ti. The novelty is constructed on a 40-nm core GF116 and will be positioned in the lower-middle price range. Its recommended price – just $ 149 U.S..

According to official figures, GeForce GTX 550 Ti has the following specifications: 192 core CUDA, 32 texture units, 192-bit memory, 1 GB of VRAM GDDR5. Map is powered by a 6-pin PCIe, and the frequency of its graphics processor (GPU), CUDA cores and memory (VRAM) 900, 1800 and 4100 MHz respectively. Its TDP – 116 Tues As stated, the new product supports 2-way SLI, DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, as well as technologies such as NVIDIA's CUDA, PhysX, and 3D Vision. Still, we note that the GeForce GTX 550 Ti have access to Dual-DVI and HDMI.

Will the GeForce GTX 550 Ti win the upcoming fight with the Radeon HD 5770 in the struggle for a segment of the market of graphics cards costing up to $ 150, is unclear. According to many independent sources, this latest card from NVIDIA is more powerful Radeon HD 5770, but not much. On the other hand, it is 20-30 dollars, than the map of AMD.

Source: TcMagazine.com