1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 555

[em16 amaze]

Can this graphics card run new games like BF3 and others on high settings?

 

[bloc97]

Yes, it definitively can!

That card's Performance is comparable to my current HD 7770, and it can play BF3 at 1080p noAA with High details.

Any card above the GTS 450 can.

Hope it helps!

 

[jessterman21]

Ask Alienware.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/02/03/alienware-x51-review

 

[jessterman21]

No that card will play on med settings @ 720p with slow downs here and there but playable not optimal.

Check out my link. "For Battlefield 3, the system cranked out framerates of 40 to 50 frames per second at high settings..."

 

[em16 amaze]

So this particular graphics card will play BF3 really well?

 

[FtsArTek]

So this particular graphics card will play BF3 really well?

Nope. GTX555 is not gonna run BF3 at anything higher than medium. In fact, for high, you'd look at an overclocked 6870/GTX560 and for ultra a 6970/GTX570.

 

[jessterman21]

So this particular graphics card will play BF3 really well?

Not really well, no. What res are you playing at, and what CPU will the card be paired with? The card will do a great job of BF3 on medium at 1080p, and 30-45fps on high (no MSAA) at 1080p.

 

[jessterman21]

Crank up the AA/AF and then come back and tell me you were getting 40 to 50 fps @ 1080P on high settings

Yeah I'm positive those were both off when IGN did their testing.

 

[jessterman21]

Guaranteed it will cripple the 555m down to a single digit side show @ 1080P with a healthy amount of AA/AF in most games but really it is a mobile GPU and a pretty good one at that for 720p gaming on the go with some lowered details IMO.

I wondered if you were talking about the 555M. The GTX 555 is an OEM desktop card that has about the same specs as the GTX 460. That's why I linked the Alienware X51 review - that's the only place I've seen the desktop variant of the GTX 555 reviewed. Yes the 555M is considerably weaker.

em16 amaze, which card are you talking about?

 

[bloc97]

A GTX 460 < HD 7770 < GTX 560Ti, so you tell me how I play BF3 @1080p with High details and have around 48fps...

 

[jessterman21]

A GTX 460 < HD 7770 < GTX 560Ti, so you tell me how I play BF3 @1080p with High details and have around 48fps...

I don't know - you find another review of that OEM card and post a link to BF3 benchmarks. The only place I've seen was the Alienware X51 review. Here's a video of an owner getting 40-45fps with shadows on medium, everything else on high.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ych77oUeoTw

 

[bloc97]

No AA/AF is how

No AA, maby. But AF virtually has No performance impact...

1xAF Trilinear = 48.5fps
16xAF Trilinear = 48.3fps

AF, for modern cards, never have performance impact.

In the old days, High-Res textures and High Filtering could impact the FPS a lot. And AA was virtually impossible without having slow slideshows of 1fps. (DX6)
DX7 was better, but there were still some issues with AA and textures. (Geometry was sucky. Spheres were squares.)
DX8 Added shading! But there were a lot of bugs and low performance.
DX9 was a lot better and was very stable. Good performance and good graphic capabilities.
DX10 and beyond had much more graphics improvements.

 

[bloc97]

Guaranteed it will cripple the 555m down to a single digit side show @ 1080P with a healthy amount of AA/AF in most games but really it is a mobile GPU and a pretty good one at that for 720p gaming on the go with some lowered details IMO.

nVidia cards has less performance impact with AA and Shader Quality. (Well anything that is 2D) *1
AMD cards has less performance impcat with Higher Geometry and Higher Textures. (Lag as hell when at 8xAA) *2

So it means that the GTX 555 (NOT 555M) can do pretty well for AA.

*1 - Because they have more ROPs and have Higher Bandwidth.
*2 - Because they have more shader cores and Texture Units.

nVidia cards generally have more ROPs compared to AMD, but lacks a bit of Texture Units and Shader Cores.

 

[bloc97]

If you are talking about FXAA or CXAA, yes those are quick pixel-shader AA. (basically a blur filter)
They offer near-zero performance impact, but offers less good quality. (blurs everything)