Club 3D First to Introduce 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550Ti, CoolStream OC Edition

btarunr · Apr 12, 2011

Club 3D B.V. is pleased to be the first to introduce the 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550Ti CoolStream OC Edition. This card supports DirectX 11, CUDA and Nvidia PhysX technologies to provide the best experience on your favorite games with up to 3x the performance of previous generations. With NVIDIA 3D Vision technology you can now use two Gefore GTX 550Ti CoolStream OC Edition cards in NVIDIA SLI configuration to project across three displays with NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology.

The new card comes equipped with CoolStream Cooling Technology to run your hottest titles without compromising performance. CoolStream features high performance heatpipes and a unique fan blade design to increase performance for your gaming and multimedia experience.

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RejZoR · Apr 12, 2011

This makes as much sense as placing a massive turbo charger on the old Fiat 500...

DanishDevil · Apr 12, 2011

Club 3D First to Introduce 2 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550Ti, Waste of Your Money Edition

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Lionheart · Apr 12, 2011

Lol good naming scheme

mystikl · Apr 12, 2011

It's not a waste of money if one plans to use it with a GPU renderer like Octane or Arion. Larger amounts of memory allow for larger scenes to be rendered.

the54thvoid · Apr 12, 2011

Hmm.. The 2GB will help on sli with 3 monitors but not really all that well for high level gaming. So, buying 3 monitors = an expense, why buy a shitty card for such an experience? I'm sorry, AMD have the 3 monitor bag all sewn up.

HalfAHertz · Apr 12, 2011

mystikl said:
It's not a waste of money if one plans to use it with a GPU renderer like Octane or Arion. Larger amounts of memory allow for larger scenes to be rendered.

I am pretty sure they store the scene in the main system ram, not video ram because the CPU also has to access the information. They're not rendered 100% by the GPU, more like 75% GPU and 25% CPU...

mystikl · Apr 12, 2011

Actually the scenes are stored in both the system and the video memory, and SLI-ing 2 or 3 video boards doesn't increase the available video memory. Dont ask me why, they just do.
The CPU doesn't do much in Octane, and the gpu is used so much that the OS's UI slows down. Iray though uses both CPU and GPU.

Nesters · Apr 12, 2011

mystikl said:
Actually the scenes are stored in both the system and the video memory, and SLI-ing 2 or 3 video boards doesn't increase the available video memory. Dont ask me why, they just do.
The CPU doesn't do much in Octane, and the gpu is used so much that the OS's UI slows down. Iray though uses both CPU and GPU.

If GPU is used THAT much, i don't think one is putting 550Ti in his scene rendering machine.

Xaser04 · Apr 12, 2011

Given the memory controller design of the GTX550TI 2GB doesn't make any sense at all. Heck 1GB doesn't either but hey that's marketing for you.

HalfAHertz · Apr 12, 2011

Xaser04 said:
Given the memory controller design of the GTX550TI 2GB doesn't make any sense at all. Heck 1GB doesn't either but hey that's marketing for you.

You still get full speed access to the first 2/3 of the memory...

But yeah it's hard not to agree with you - gimmick card is gimmick

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