GTX 660 vs GTX 550 TI

[btcomm22]

Should the 660 get more FPS on Starcraft 2 than the 550 ti?

 

[zaydq]

Yes.

 

[raghu78]

the GTX 660 is a more than doubling of performance over GTX 550 Ti. so yeah definitely you will be able to go for higher settings and better performance.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_650_Ti_Boost/25.html

1920 x 1200

GTX 550 Ti - 49
GTX 660 - 111

 

[aaksheytalwar]

A 560 will probably beat a 650Ti.

 

[willomz]

What is your CPU? Starcraft is pretty CPU intensive.

 

[alcoholbob]

Starcraft 2 is pretty CPU bottlenecked.

If you look at Tomshardware 1080p benchmarks:

GTX 580: 104.6 fps
GTX Titan: 104.22 fps
GTX 680: 103.97 fps
GTX 670: 103.92 fps
GTX 550Ti: 103.54 fps
GTX 660Ti: 102.93 fps

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/12-Starcraft-2-DirectX-11-B-Performance,2965.html

 

[UaVaj]

for sc2 "only". all you need is a 550TI. put the rest of your money into the fastest cpu you can buy.

run a i7-3770k with 680sli and in large heated battles. frame dip to the low 20. cpu usage is at a pathetic 45% (basically maxed out on 2 core) and gpu is 35% on each (extreme setting with AA).
sc2 is a piss poor optimized game (think blizzard intended it to be that way).

 

[willomz]

Starcraft 2 is pretty CPU bottlenecked.

If you look at Tomshardware 1080p benchmarks:

GTX 580: 104.6 fps
GTX Titan: 104.22 fps
GTX 680: 103.97 fps
GTX 670: 103.92 fps
GTX 550Ti: 103.54 fps
GTX 660Ti: 102.93 fps

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/12-Starcraft-2-DirectX-11-B-Performance,2965.html

It can be a lot worse than that with the wrong CPU, the 8350 only averages 47.9 fps at high settings, so could actually bottleneck a 550 Ti.

Ideally you want something like an i5 3470 or higher. Something with decent IPC and 4 or more cores.

 

[alcoholbob]

for sc2 "only". all you need is a 550TI. put the rest of your money into the fastest cpu you can buy.

run a i7-3770k with 680sli and in large heated battles. frame dip to the low 20. cpu usage is at a pathetic 45% (basically maxed out on 2 core) and gpu is 35% on each (extreme setting with AA).
sc2 is a piss poor optimized game (think blizzard intended it to be that way).

Maybe you should turn off SLI, then a single 680 can boost faster and you should have better framerate, I don't think SLI works in SC2.

 

[UaVaj]

SLI works perfectly with SC2.

with single GPU. same results for CPU. GPU is now 55%.

simply not enough CPU to feed GPU for more frames.