Friday, March 18th 2011
ONDA Unveils GeForce GTX 550 Ti with 1536 MB of Memory
This just had to happen. NVIDIA wanted GeForce GTX 550 Ti to have higher memory bandwidth, while keeping costs low. So it populated its 192-bit GDDR5 memory interface with mixed density memory modules (that's 4x 1 Gbit, and 2x 2 Gbit) to get 1 GB of standard memory size. Chinese motherboard and graphics card specialist ONDA, which primarily sells in the East Asian markets, decided to populate the 192-bit interface with all 2 Gbit modules. The result is 1536 MB (1.5 GB) of memory.
The ONDA X-Engine GTX 550 Ti has a upper-mainstream look to it, with 1536 MB of memory, a high-performance cooler that uses a large 6-heatpipe heatsink, cooled by two 80 mm case fans, 4+2 phase VRM with POSCAP capacitors, and overclocked speeds of 1000 MHz core, 2000 MHz CUDA cores, and 4.40 GHz memory. To support the increased power demand, the card draws power from two 6-pin power connectors. Display outputs look to include one each of DVI, D-Sub, and HDMI. It isn't very likely that ONDA will sell westwards.
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The ONDA X-Engine GTX 550 Ti has a upper-mainstream look to it, with 1536 MB of memory, a high-performance cooler that uses a large 6-heatpipe heatsink, cooled by two 80 mm case fans, 4+2 phase VRM with POSCAP capacitors, and overclocked speeds of 1000 MHz core, 2000 MHz CUDA cores, and 4.40 GHz memory. To support the increased power demand, the card draws power from two 6-pin power connectors. Display outputs look to include one each of DVI, D-Sub, and HDMI. It isn't very likely that ONDA will sell westwards.
21 Comments on ONDA Unveils GeForce GTX 550 Ti with 1536 MB of Memory
The last 256MB of memory on the 1GB card technically only has 32.8GB/s memory bandwidth (as complex balancing would have used up the 768MB spread over the 3 (6) memory channels first, leaving only the 256MB connected via two 32bit links).
With memory loads of over 768MB this card should be noticably faster than the 1GB card in the same gaming scenarios (or at least should have higher minimums).
I'd rather see a 768MB card that was cheaper than a 1.5GB card that was more expensive, the 1.5GB isn't helping at all.
Also, looks pretty nice!
Can someone confirm if this is the same ONDA that makes PMPs? like this one
Holy crap!! Look at the monstrosity of that cooling system, that must be one hell of a powerful graph...oh wait, it's just a GTX550Ti. :wtf:
:laugh:
btw... like the serenity avatar... was a good movie. would be nice if they brought back the show.
edit... i got a feeling the cooling will make it use 3 slots.
edit2... the yellow caps/mosfet... w/e they are remind me of my old conner hard drive.
These things are clocked at 900~1000Mhz out of the factory already.
I would have preferred to see a cheaper 768mb variant than this but at least it looks and sounds good :) two in SLi should perform admirably given the local memory boost, but price for performance will be crap, you would be much better off with a 560Ti
even if this version manages 1.1Ghz it still performs around the 5830 which is shit regardless.
Onda are are decent mainstream brand in China, they get knocked off as much as Apple do :laugh:
Means quality should be decent : ]
They SUCK at software though, so if these cards come bundled with anything, just burn it :laugh:
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There are motherboards, VGA's, MP3's and GPS on their list. I think they are growing bigger and better every year.