NVidia GeForce GTX550 Ti Video Card Review

There are six tests in 3DMark 11. The four graphics tests use advanced rendering techniques making use of tessellation, volumetric lighting, depth of field and post processing effects enabled by DirectX 11 graphics hardware. The physics test uses rigid body simulation of a large number of objects on the CPU. The combined test features CPU and GPU workloads. The CPU handles rigid-body physics while the GPU is tasked with volumetric lighting, tessellation, post processing as well as simulating soft-body physics using DirectCompute.

The testing was done with the default performance setting for all of the cards to give an idea where each ones stands in the GPU line up.

Here we can see that the GTX550Ti can handle DX11 much better than the GTS450, but does lack a little compared to the older Radeon 5770. Driver updates will likely improve this margin over time.