Everyone was expecting Nvidia to officially announce the highly anticipated dual-GPU GTX 590, but instead of doing that, Nvidia go ahead and announce a new mid-range graphic card for its second-generation Fermi products, and that is the GeForce GTX 550. Yes, this new card also comes with the suffix “Ti”.

The card is the successor of the GTX 450 (GF106). The new GTX 550 Ti is based on the refined GF116. It has the same amount of stream processor with the GTS 450 and that is 192, but ROPs is increased to 24 instead of 16. Also, core clock speed has been buffed to 900MHz compared to 783MHz, and memory clock speed is up from 900MHz to 1026MHz. Shader clock speed is also bumped from 1566MHz to 1800MHz.

Nvidia also throws in a gigabyte of RAM running at an effective rate of 4GHz. That too is constrained somewhat, however, by a 192-bit interface, rather than the wider 256-bit affair on its bigger brother GTX 560 Ti. What all these specs boil down is some decent performance, but few recommendations from reviewers due to Nvidia’s pricing.

Read the full review at Anandtech