This GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition graphics card is considered budget with poor modern game performance when playing anything more demanding than indie game requirements.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 11 requirement.

This low performing GPU is unable to play any of the most demanding games available today.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition in your PC? This GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition graphics card has reached the end of its ability to run games released today. If you have it in your gaming PC then it’s time to upgrade your graphics solution.

FPS System Benchmark

0 FPS

High

Game

Grand Theft Auto V

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition is released on the 01 Mar 2011

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GPU

Architecture

Fermi GF116-400-A1

Process

40nm

TMUs

Texture Rate

32 GTexel/s

ROPs

Pixel Rate

24 GPixel/s

Shader
Processing Units (Cuda Cores)

192

Ray Tracing Cores

Tensor Cores

Driver Support

Release Price

Compatibility

Direct X

DX 12.0

Shader

5.0

Open GL

4.5

Resolution (WxH)

2560x1600

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Yes the GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Dedicated

Integrated

Memory

1024 MB

Memory Speed

1100 MHz

Memory Bus

192 Bit

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bandwidth

105.6GB/sec

L2 Cache

384KB

Display Connectors

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

DisplayPort Connection

Clock Speeds

Core Speed

1000 MHz

Power

Max Power

None

PSU

Power Connector

None

Recommended Hardware

Best CPU Match

Core i3-2100 3.1GHz

Best RAM Match

8 GB

Best Resolution

1600 x 900

GPU Upgrade

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition Game Requirement Analysis

GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition is a special edition of the upper-middle-class GeForce GTX 550 Ti. See the standard edition's page for more information.
The new features include increase clock frequencies from 900MHz to 1000MHz and 1025MHz to 1100MHz of the core and memory clocks, respectively.
Benchmarks indicate a 8% performance boost when compared to standard GeForce GTX 550 Ti.
Some modern demanding games will run at the highest settings using a 1080p resolution but the largest part will have to be played with a 720p resolution to be played optimally.
This Graphics Card needs to be paired with a decent Quad Core CPU.

Source [Pip]

GeForce GTX 550 Ti Sonic Edition vs Avg. AAA Game System Requirements

Avg. AAA Recommended Requirements

CPU

Core i3-9350KF 4-Core 4.0GHz

Graphics Card

Radeon RX 470 4GB

263%

RAM

11GB

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ankerias

ankerias's Rig
Saved at: May-27-2019

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Ryzen R5 1600

GFX

GeForce RTX 2060 6GB oc: 15%

RAM

16GB DDR4 2666MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height

ankerias's Game Library

00:55 Apr-28-2013

"This Graphics Card needs to be paired with a decent Quad Core CPU."
"Best CPU Match Core i3-2100 3.1GHz". Eh?
I had this card, it runs dx9 games very smoothly on high/ultra settings @1080p, but with dx11 games it just struggles. Metro 2033 was barely playable with medium settings.

andy8800

andy8800's Rig
Saved at: Sep-18-2016

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Core i5-2320 3.0GHz

GFX

Radeon R9 280X

RAM

8GB DDR3 1333MHz

RES

1366 x 768
width x height

Phone

HTC One X+

andy8800's Game Library

00:59 Apr-28-2013

actually i3 2100 is a powerful cpu, its enough to handle this card and it has hyper threading which makes it having 4 logical cpus'

ankerias

ankerias's Rig
Saved at: May-27-2019

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Ryzen R5 1600

GFX

GeForce RTX 2060 6GB oc: 15%

RAM

16GB DDR4 2666MHz

RES

1920 x 1080
width x height

ankerias's Game Library

01:08 Apr-28-2013

Yep i know it's enough and it has hyperthreading. But it's still not a quad core, and i'm pretty sure pip knows that :) Why not change it to a strong dual core? Would be more accurate, imo.

andy8800

andy8800's Rig
Saved at: Sep-18-2016

Compared to your Rig

CPU

Core i5-2320 3.0GHz

GFX

Radeon R9 280X

RAM

8GB DDR3 1333MHz

RES

1366 x 768
width x height

Phone

HTC One X+

andy8800's Game Library

01:19 Apr-28-2013

haha, you got a point there

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