Sparkle’s take on the GeForce GTX 550 Ti gives a mixed first impression. The card itself features a custom cooler with a large central fan affixed to a copper and aluminum heatsink. A thin shroud of glossy black plastic keeps the air flowing through the heatsink fins, but it’s an open design that doesn’t direct airflow much beyond that. Despite the hefty cooler, Sparkle chose to leave this card at the stock clocks, setting the core clock and memory clock to 900MHz and 1,025MHz, respectively. That said Sparkle’s cooler is more
substantial than Nvidia’s stock cooler, and right on par with the cooler strapped to Zotac’s AMP model.
Sparkle GeForce GTX 550 Ti comes in blue scheme color which makes it look “fresh” and quite attractive. This graphics card has also been used to adopt the HSF Vapor Chamber technology, the latter is quite widely used upper-class graphics card because of the ability and efficiency are very good at cooling the GPU. For specifications that are used, it seems that graphics card is still entrust the same clock and memory in accordance with the standard reference NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti is 900/4100 MHz. From most experiences in the past, characteristic of this graphics generally have the ability to achieve high clock (1 GHz). In fact, some manufacturers have entrusted the clock as high as 1 GHz as a standard product. Then, how the graphics capabilities of this? Check out our next test.
NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti Features:
* Microsoft DirectX 11
* NVIDIA 3DVision
* NVIDIA 3DVision Surround
* NVIDIA SLI
* NVIDIA PhysX
* NVIDIA CUDA
* NVIDIA PureVideo HD
* 32x Anti-Aliasing
* PCI Express 2.0 x16
* Dual-link DVI-I
* Mini-HDMI
Key Features:
• Microsoft DirectX 11 support
• NVIDIA CUDA technology with CUDA C/C++,DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL support
• NVIDIA PhysX technology
• NVIDIA SLI ready
• NVIDIA 3D Vision Ready
• NVIDIA Surround Ready
• NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology
• PCI Express 2.0 support
• Two Dual-link DVI-I connectors
• One Mini-HDMI 1.4a connector
• Dual-link HDCP-Capable
• OpenGL 4.1 support
Sparkle GTX 550 Ti
* Full-load: 56 ° C (fan speed: Auto)
* Idle: 30 ° C (fan speed: Auto)
It works quite cold temperatures. In fact, in full load, the temperature we note not melwati 56 degrees Celsius.
Components used have adopted full solid capacitors. Unfortunately, the VRM does not use the extra cooling anymore.
Display standard output is available, 2x DVI and one mini-HDMI. The use of purple is also contained in this section.
Conclusion
Ti GTX 550 graphics card from Sparkle is able to demonstrate the performance of the NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti standards. Various testing games that can be passed without any serious problems. At the level of 1920
× 1080 resolution and high detail, this mainstream graphics card can still be fairly reliable, although in some DX 11 games are quite heavy we had to adjust the proper settings for frame rate can be seen in
comfort.
Sparkle doesn’t mention that the graphics card is already adopted the technology HSF Vapor Chamber as one of the features. In fact, this feature became one of its added value. Testing temperature not exceed
56 degrees Celsius at full load conditions. With temperatures still quite cold, makes some users think there is still room to boost the performance of this graphics card as standard specifications that have been immersed in Ti 550 GTX graphics cards are generally still be slightly tweaked further. When try to clock up to 950 MHz, the stability of this graphics card is still very solid. Overall, the product from Sparkle is quite good. For mainstream users, this graphics card can be the right choice. With a price range of 1.3 million dollars, you have to bring home this exciting graphics card.
Pros:
* Cold and efficiently with HSF Vapor Chamber.
* The design and attractive colors.
Cons:
* Still using a standard clock and memory.
Technical Data
* Chip: NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti
* Interface: PCI Express 2.0 x16
* Memory Size: 1024 KB
* Core Clock: 900 MHz
* Shader Clock: 1800 MHz
* Memory Clock: 4100 MHz
* Stream Processors: 192
* D-Sub Output: None (with converter DVI to D-Sub)
* DVI Output: None (2 pieces)
* HDMI Output: None (mini HDMI)
* Display Port Output: There is no
* Memory Type: GDDR5
* Memory Interface: 192-bit
* Hardware: Quick Installation Guide, Driver Disc, Molex to 6-pin power converter, a mini HDMI to HDMI, and DVI to D-Sub converter display.
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