Anyone play the game that uses a GeForce GTX 550 Ti GPU?

Just curious if anyone has this card that plays FFXIV? Looking into replacing my 9800 GT with something that is a few steps up and at an affordable price. This fits my bill, just curious how it handles the game.

P.S. Please don't reply about that card unless you know first hand, though if you want to link me to a card on a site that is between $100-$125 feel free to do so. (after rebate)

I have a 560ti and it handles the game very well, I can't remember the exact difference in specs off the top of my head but if you want I can list the settings I run at.

Looking specifically for someone who runs the 550 TI.

Fair enough, just thought I'd offer.

Haha at first I had to do a double take to make sure this wasn't me who started the topic...I actually just did what you are looking to do. There is not a noticeable enough difference to warrant buying it, without posting your other pc specs. I saw a frame increase of maybe 4 to 5 fps.

This card may be good if the rest of your computer is up to par, but in my case I will need to update the rest of my pc to see much of any difference.

Edit: For example in Ul'dah I would see possibly 5-7fps. Now I see maybe 7-10fps. Loaded areas are still bogged down. Out in the frontier I can see anywhere from 11-19fps depending on the players around and all that good stuff.

I've heard better things about the #60 versions of the cards. Apparently the first 5 means 5th generation and the 5 and 0 or even 50 have their own meaning of power. I'd suggest looking online for a 460 or 560 and see if you can find one at your price range.

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Originally Posted by Yuppiekin

Haha at first I had to do a double take to make sure this wasn't me who started the topic...I actually just did what you are looking to do. There is not a noticeable enough difference to warrant buying it, without posting your other pc specs. I saw a frame increase of maybe 4 to 5 fps.

This card may be good if the rest of your computer is up to par, but in my case I will need to update the rest of my pc to see much of any difference.

Edit: For example in Ul'dah I would see possibly 5-7fps. Now I see maybe 7-10fps. Loaded areas are still bogged down. Out in the frontier I can see anywhere from 11-19fps depending on the players around and all that good stuff.

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What is your average fps in ul'dah and outside? such as battles,dungeons etc..

Ul'dah 7-10. Dungeons...7-15 depending on the mob load, etc. Never see 20+ unless it's perfectly calm around.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Looking specifically for someone who runs the 550 TI.

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I use GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMP! Edition. (I believe the brand is Zotac.)

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Originally Posted by Yuppiekin

Apparently the first 5 means 5th generation and the 5 and 0 or even 50 have their own meaning of power. I'd suggest looking online for a 460 or 560 and see if you can find one at your price range.

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Pretty much, the starting number indicates the GPU family, cards that are X## all use GPUs that share manufacturing, core design, fabrication process or similar. The following number indicates the intended audience broken down something like this:

#10 - #30 Media playback cards for HTPCs and the like, can run some games but unlikely to run them well.

#40 - Entry level gaming card, runs most games at low specs

#50 - Mid range card, will run most games at moderate settings

#60 - 'Gamer' card, will run most games at moderate to high settings

#70 - 'Performance' grade card, will run most games at high settings

#80 - 'Enthusiast' grade card, will run even the most demanding games at high settings

#90 - SLI cards, a card running two GPUs in order to allow 4GPU SLI without/reducing PCI lane bottlenecking.

You can do some research to get the specifics but that's *roughly* how Nvidia breaks down their product line, ATI/AMD do something similar but with different numbers. Personally I'd never go below a #60 card if you can afford it, also worth baring in mind that generally speaking two #60 cards in SLI perform about the same as a #80 card, with #60 cards being half the price it is increasingly common to see people buy one #60 now and then a second later when the price comes down. I currently have a 560ti and plan to buy a second in a few months when the 660 is out and the prices have dropped a little further.

But it's also worth baring in mind, as Yuppiekin said, it is worth seeing if the rest of your computer is up to par, if you run a 5## series card in a AM2 or socket 775 system you won't get the most out of it.

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Originally Posted by Asmeret

@Dibria - I don't think that's true. The 550/560 are just more power efficient versions of their 450/460 counterparts. (That's my understanding.)

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Nope, the 500 series kept the same Fermi architecture as the 400 series but there are a lot of differences, I realise a lot of people don't find this as interesting as I do so I'll keep this brief but the changes were as follows:

GPU clock upgrade from 675MHz to 820MHz
Number of stream processors increased from 336 to 384
Tesselation units increased from 7 to 8
Texture units from 56 to 64
Memory clock increase from 900Mhz to 1GHz leading to memory bandwidth increase
Memory bandwidth increased from 115GB/s to 128GB/s

Also worth noting is the 560ti draws 20 more watts than the 460. I could compare the 460 to the 560 non ti edition but that was actually a revision of the 560ti with one less functional core to save on manufacturing costs. The non ti 560 is still clocked higher than the 460 and still outperforms it - Nvidia would not release a new GPU series with only an advantage in power management, it's suicidal in todays graphics market.

When AMD released their latest line they have managed to reduce power consumption massively but they did so through reducing fabrication to a 25nm process, they still made faster, more powerful GPUs, it's too competitive at the moment for either company to release cards that don't advance performance in some way.

I haven't seen anyone mention yet but this game isn't exactly a good example to go off of for performance. Maybe after v2.0, I don't know for sure, but the games engine right now is very unstable and not efficient as far as perfromance. Example, I am currently running a sandy bridge i7 overclocked at 4.5ghz on all 4 cores, 8gb 1866mhz ram with 2 geforce 580gtx cards in sli. @1920x1080, standard drawing quality with high textures, mouse curser on AO DoF off, I get anywhere from 30-60fps (60 outside, drops to 30 on occasion in a crowded area of uldah).

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Originally Posted by Dibria

Nope, the 500 series kept the same Fermi architecture as the 400 series but there are a lot of differences, I realise a lot of people don't find this as interesting as I do so I'll keep this brief but the changes were as follows:

GPU clock upgrade from 675MHz to 820MHz
Number of stream processors increased from 336 to 384
Tesselation units increased from 7 to 8
Texture units from 56 to 64
Memory clock increase from 900Mhz to 1GHz leading to memory bandwidth increase
Memory bandwidth increased from 115GB/s to 128GB/s

Also worth noting is the 560ti draws 20 more watts than the 460. I could compare the 460 to the 560 non ti edition but that was actually a revision of the 560ti with one less functional core to save on manufacturing costs. The non ti 560 is still clocked higher than the 460 and still outperforms it - Nvidia would not release a new GPU series with only an advantage in power management, it's suicidal in todays graphics market.

When AMD released their latest line they have managed to reduce power consumption massively but they did so through reducing fabrication to a 25nm process, they still made faster, more powerful GPUs, it's too competitive at the moment for either company to release cards that don't advance performance in some way.

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Certainly learn something new everyday :).

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Originally Posted by Aldwin

I haven't seen anyone mention yet but this game isn't exactly a good example to go off of for performance. Maybe after v2.0, I don't know for sure, but the games engine right now is very unstable and not efficient as far as perfromance. Example, I am currently running a sandy bridge i7 overclocked at 4.5ghz on all 4 cores, 8gb 1866mhz ram with 2 geforce 580gtx cards in sli. @1920x1080, standard drawing quality with high textures, mouse curser on AO DoF off, I get anywhere from 30-60fps (60 outside, drops to 30 on occasion in a crowded area of uldah).

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Yeah your computer looks like it's a lot better than mine, but performance wise it sounds like it's about the same. Hopefully 2.0 will bring much better optimization of this game.

I got the 550 TI, the card seems to hanlde the game great, just that my other parts are not up to scratch. Still running on DDR2 >.<

See you guys are going way off topic. Has nothing to do with other PCs specs because they are all up to par. I was simply asking how that specific card ran. If you absolutely want to know my spec hell Ill give em to you.

AMD Athlon II X2- 2.7ghz
6144 Ram
1gb PNY XLR8 9800 GT
Most settings are standard with 4xMSAA, no ambient occlusion or anything of that sort except physics on.

My bro has a 2.4 processor and lower specs overall but runs a GTX 460 and his game handles at a better performance than mine.

Just a tip for people trying to get the most out of this game, change the shadow quality down a notch or 2 from high shadows. The way this game projects Shadows and awful and is a total resource hog.

I got a 560 Ti.
Ambient Occlusion and Depth of Field still lag too much (seriously SE, what's this supposed to run on?) but everything else is fantastic.

Ambient Occlusion is broken with this client it offers nothing, so don't even bother turning it on. Depth of Field I would turn on or off depending on personal preference. I leave mine off because I think the game looks nicer.

If anyone wants to know what I'm running, here it is:
Video Settings
Display Mode Full Screen
Window Size 1920x1080
Multisampling 4x MSAA
General Drawing Quality 9 (high)
Background Drawing Quality 5 (High)
Shadow Standard

Texture Quality High
Texture Filter Highest

My pc:
i7 950 @3.52ghz
12gb ram
120gb ssd
Amd 5870 1gb
Windows 7 home.

I currently run the game around high 40-60 fps mostly in the 50 range and sometimes a constant 60 depending on how many people in one area. Very smooth.

If you turn General Drawing Quality down to 8 the game should run even better and still look really good.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

See you guys are going way off topic. Has nothing to do with other PCs specs because they are all up to par. I was simply asking how that specific card ran. If you absolutely want to know my spec hell Ill give em to you.

AMD Athlon II X2- 2.7ghz
6144 Ram
1gb PNY XLR8 9800 GT
Most settings are standard with 4xMSAA, no ambient occlusion or anything of that sort except physics on.

My bro has a 2.4 processor and lower specs overall but runs a GTX 460 and his game handles at a better performance than mine.

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I showed you how the card ran with images of FPS :s. I spent a lot of time making that post... You're welcome... >_>

3core amd 2.60ghz
4gb ddr2
window 7 64bit
450gts

Video Settings
Display Mode Full Screen
Window Size 1440x900
Multisampling 2x MSAA
General Drawing Quality 8 (Standard)
Background Drawing Quality 3 (Standard
Shadow Standard
Texture Quality high
Texture Filtering highest
Depth of field on
Ambient Occlusion off

i have all the setting on in the game also put my fps to 30 and get anything from 25-30fps outside little lower inside the city and for some dumb reason when there a holiday the tree in ul'dah if i get close my temp and fps lowers but i think we talk about that before on here.

My gf have a 3870 with the same setting the only diff is no DOF and she have shadows and everything turn off inside play a little better then mine sometime also she have a 4core but i don't think that make much of a big diff.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

See you guys are going way off topic. Has nothing to do with other PCs specs because they are all up to par. I was simply asking how that specific card ran. If you absolutely want to know my spec hell Ill give em to you.

AMD Athlon II X2- 2.7ghz
6144 Ram
1gb PNY XLR8 9800 GT
Most settings are standard with 4xMSAA, no ambient occlusion or anything of that sort except physics on.

My bro has a 2.4 processor and lower specs overall but runs a GTX 460 and his game handles at a better performance than mine.

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Your first post didn't say anything about other pc specs. Since my pc specs aren't up to par I do believe that mentioning them would save you some money if you fell into my category. We can't just assume that your stuff is up to snuff unless you tell us. Anyway, you've got examples from me and another user. Me with subpar specs and one with par-or-above specs. :)

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Originally Posted by Gramul

seriously SE, what's this supposed to run on?

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Never seen this?

Final Fantasy XIV Recommended PC

It was part of the line that included a recommended router, mouse, keyboard etc.

It includes a 3.33GHz i7 Quad core - hyper-threaded processor, 12Gb RAM, a GTX480 (Nvidias top of the line at the time) and had an 80Gb SSD. Kotaku claims it retailed around $4000.

if your on a budget just get the GTX 460.

card vs card the 460 will be 15-20% better then the 550ti and is only $15-30 more.

I have GTX 460 with old Intel Q6600 getting 50fps in middle of Ul'Dah.

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Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia

Just curious if anyone has this card that plays FFXIV? Looking into replacing my 9800 GT with something that is a few steps up and at an affordable price. This fits my bill, just curious how it handles the game.

P.S. Please don't reply about that card unless you know first hand, though if you want to link me to a card on a site that is between $100-$125 feel free to do so. (after rebate)

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I play with this exact card and I play with max settings with an occasional rubber band but other than that, best bargain out there and I def recommend that card.

My ati card fried the other week and I replaced it with the gtx550 Ti. Worst mistake I ever made. I'm getting terrible lag and character load times, up to a minute for players to load in uldah. Never had any problems before and the only thing to have changed in my system is the gpu. I'm going back to ati, ordered a 6870.

I actually did this exact update! 9800 to a EVGA gtx550. To be honest, the loading time isnt stellar, but I was used to loading times like this before with the 9800. You DO get a decent speed increase, and you can actually turn things on like shadows (No ambient Occlusion). Increase resolution as well!

Just replaced the gtx 550Ti I had stupidly put into my computer with an ATI 6870. Game runs very nicely now. I wouldnt recommend that nvidia piece of crap to my worst enemy.

For what it is worth OP you might want to upgrade your CPU as well if possible. I was running an Athlon X2 @3.0GHz with 4GB RAM and an nVidia GTX 470. The game was very playable (20-30 FPS most of the time) but I later upgraded to a Core i7 @3.3GHz and 6GB RAM. Using the exact same video card I'm getting anywhere from 45-60FPS depending on where I am and how many people are around. Seemed like my old CPU was a big bottleneck and holding the video card back (not just on this game, but others as well).

Settings I use are 4xMSAA, high settings for most everything, DoF and Hardware Mouse ON, AO off. Resolution is at 1920x1200 in windowed mode. Running on Windows 7 Home Premium x64.

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Originally Posted by Yuppiekin

I've heard better things about the #60 versions of the cards. Apparently the first 5 means 5th generation and the 5 and 0 or even 50 have their own meaning of power. I'd suggest looking online for a 460 or 560 and see if you can find one at your price range.

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I just got my GTX 560, $152 after rebate.
It can run at max texture and background, outside during raining is around 20-24 fps.
when I tune to texture 9 background 4, it's all 40-60 fps everywhere.

to future card buyers:
you can use GPU benchmark to see which card is better. Since we all give you some "GENERAL" idea what's our card works, then you can get some general idea from there.
such as GTX 560: 2722
GTX 550 TI: 1885
ATI 4870: 1738
I own a ATI 4870 before, I can run with standard no problem, but I play at texture 7 background 3 for safety. Then, I'll expect GTX 550TI can run with standard no problem.

I got the card refurbished from Newegg when it was on sale. For me it was a step up from an ASUS CuCore Radeon 5770 video card I had. Not much of a difference but it was. I haven't bothered trying to compare the frame rates yet however. But here's the settings I use:

Display Mode -1920 x 1080 (Windowed)
Multisampling - 8x CSAA (8xQ MSAA worked fine too, I just lowered it.)
General Drawing Quality - 8 (Standard)
Background Drawing Quality - 3 (Standard)
Shadow Detail - Highest
Ambient Occlusion - Off
Depth of Field - Off
Disable Cutscene Effects - Off
Enable Hardware Mouse Cursor - On
Texture Quality - High
Texture Filtering - Highest

System:

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
AMD Phenom II 955 Quad Core @ 3.2GHz
8GB DDR3 1333 Mushkin Dual Channel (2x4GB sticks)
Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Sound Card
nVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Rosewill 500W Power Supply (Generic brand that came with the case.)

On average I'm seeing:

Cities: 30's (Can vary, most often around 30-31ish. Rare moments it'll drop into a 20 range but seldom. Most usually when loading a very large amount of people.)
Fields: 35-40's (Again varies. In heavily populated areas like camps it'll drop a bit just under 40, otherwise averages that if not higher. Wide open areas like Thanalan will see close to 50 or more.)
Strongholds: 30's (Natalan tends to take the biggest hit.)

Overall if on a budget and just needing a new card it's not a bad choice, but otherwise spend a bit more I guess and get something higher end.

Although the 550 is newer the 460 is prolly around the same price and you would most likely get better performance from it. The 550 is just a rebranded 450 and i say the 460 would be better primarily because of the higher memory bandwidth. Also too, if your 9800 is getting those low fps, your settings are waaay too high, or you need to update your graphics drivers. My last card, 9800gt performed very well in xiv with mostly all settings on standard. Hope this post helps

I run a SC 560Ti with an i7 950 and 6 gigs DDR3. In town i'm around 30 FPS, primals and raids i'm almost always over 50 FPS. The new imperial assaults, however, drop me down to teens and 20s when lots of ppl are in them =(

1920x1080 windowed
8x CSAA
8 General draw
5 Background draw
High shadows (maybe standard?)
Max textures and filtering
DoF on
AO off

Getting an SSD and 680 soon