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NVidia GeForce GTX550 Ti Video Card Review
Author: Will West
Published: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Aliens vs Predator
In space no one can hear you scream, but if you are a human in AVP that will be the only thing you will be doing. The game is based off of the movies and comic books series that has been done before, but this is the much bigger and better reboot of the game series. AVP is a full DX11 game with some serious Tessellation at work to test any modern GPU.
Setting used for testing is as follows.
Texture Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
SSAO: ON
Vertical Sync: OFF
DX11 Tessellation: ON
DX11 Advanced Shadows: ON
DX11 MSAA Samples: Off
Texture Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
SSAO: ON
Vertical Sync: OFF
DX11 Tessellation: ON
DX11 Advanced Shadows: ON
DX11 MSAA Samples: Off
Now onto the real world DirectX 11 gaming situation we see the gap is very small between the GTX550Ti and the Radeon 5770. We do hope to see the GTX550Ti mature to faster speeds in time with newer drivers.
