{"video_id":"lc3coIcVUpc","title":"GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs 8600 GTS Crysis Image Quality Comparison Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":606,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":10.2,"text":"so my video today is one that you guys seem to quite enjoy from the GTX 560 TI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.24,"end_s":13.4,"text":"launch so I've got a GTX 550 TI and I am","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.2,"end_s":14.519,"text":"running crisis in directx10 mode and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.4,"end_s":19.88,"text":"what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be comparing the playable settings","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.4,"end_s":25.32,"text":"and the image quality that I can get on a GTX 550 TI versus what that kind of a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.519,"end_s":33.719,"text":"price would have bought you a few years ago which is an uh 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videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so my video today is one that you guys seem to quite enjoy from the GTX 560 TI launch so I've got a GTX 550 TI and I am running crisis in directx10 mode and what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be comparing the playable settings and the image quality that I can get on a GTX 550 TI versus what that kind of a price would have bought you a few years ago which is an uh GeForce 8600 GTS or 8600 GT so I'm going to go to my image quality compare save game and uh I'm going to load this up and show you guys what I was able to achieve with the oh no you know what ah yes no first I'll show you the settings that I have everything at let's do that okay so system settings I was able to with the 550 TI and this is really impressive especially considering that this card is designed for 1680 x150 I was able to get things going at 1920x 108 so that is full HD resolution anti-aliasing is not an option with a card of this level at that kind of resolution in crisis but that is to be expected and before anyone asks yes I recommend higher resolution with no AA before I would recommend lower resolution with aa aa is basically just fake resolution and you're better off to have real resolution I was also able to run the game mostly on high settings so I have almost everything on high uh remember this is a 1 gig card so textures are not going to be a real big issue for it which is really nice to see on a card of again this price point I did turn motion blur off and I think I also adjusted one other thing oh yeah objects quality is on very high so uh that is the settings that I'm running at so I'm going to compare that against the 8600 GTS so here's my initial image quality comparison loading game so you can see all the Shadows are very soft uh we can see very clearly into the distance on the screen I'm actually here I'm going to lift up my camera show you guys what I mean so here's an example of the Shadows being detailed and soft versus being uh really hard and ugly as well as uh you can see we got some smoke effects going on there basically the game is running at almost Max settings so this is all pretty high there's some more Shadows for you I'm going to put the camera down for a second here and just sort of run through the gameplay I want you guys to make note of the uh fraps counter up in the top right corner I hope you can see that you know what I'm going to adjust you up just a little bit so I can be sure that you can see that fraps counter so right now we're at 40 or so FPS so I'm just going to run forward you can see the water looks great I'm going to blow up a barrel so it drops down to 31 FPS minimum when I blow up that Barrel 31 FPS minimum when I do the second one all the foliage is nice and detailed draw distances are great so I can see all the way up to that mountain with no difficulty whatsoever just going to go into uh speed mode here hop over to the truck and I'm just going to do a little gameplay sequence with you guys so that you can also get a feel for uh what the lowest frame rate will be during our gameplay sequence so my objective when I'm running a game is not to run at 30fps but to have my lowest dips to be 30 FPS or higher that's usually what I'm trying to achieve so here I'm just going to go up this little Hill in my Jeep here you can see we're still running at about 35 FPS and now we're headed into a combat scenario here where hopefully I won't die I'm running on easy just so that there's not much risk of that because the point of this demo isn't how good is lonus at video games the point is how good is the video card we're talking about at video games so the frag grenades where did they go ah yeah FR grenades okay so let's go let's wait for that uh truck to show up we're still running we're running at about 40 FPS with no characters on the screen and at about 30 FPS with lots of characters running around all over the screen so we're at 33 right now we're in the foliage we're going to kill this guy and then hopefully that stupid Jeep's going to come there it is okay so now we're going to try and blow up that jeep boom okay so yeah you can see it actually didn't drop oh no I didn't get it shoot there we go so 26 at the absolute lowest when we're blowing up a Jeep and it's right in front of us and still very playable at that kind of a frame rate so now let's go back and run the 8600 GTS in place of the GTX 550 TI so before I show you guys uh what we're able to achieve with the 8600 GTS why don't I show you how it runs at the same same image quality settings so looking around you can see that uh you know obviously we've got the same high quality Shadows we've got the same Long View distance we've got the same particle effects all of that good stuff but if you check the FPS counter up in the corner I can barely even hit that you can see it's running around 11 frames per second and drops down as low as 7 frames per second which look I'm having trouble even hitting a barrel like this 6f PS which is a completely unplayable experience you have a very difficult time controlling your character Everything feels very laggy uh you can see it's basically like I I could I could draw by hand the game and then make a flipbook out of it and it would probably be faster than trying to play it like this so it it definitely delivers a better gameplay experience to run a higher end card if you're going to try and run at full HD resolution with high details in a game like Crisis so let's uh let's show what we can achieve with the 8600 GTS in terms of image quality to make a more fair comparison all right so with my 8600 GTS let's do a quick image quality comparison here which honestly there's going to be no comparison I mean check out the quality of the water it basically looks like a big gray blob Mass uh the textures are absolutely terrible very very low resolution uh pretty much the settings that I had to run on here I'll show you the settings really quick are options system settings Graphics I was able to stay at full HD resolution that is 1920 x 1080 but I have to run pretty much well no not pretty much I have to run everything on low and I had to turn motion blur off to get similar frame rate performance to what I was achieving with the GTX 550 so you can see like this Barrel has absolutely no definition to it whatever it's just there see once I zoom in it's okay but look at the star contrast I mean look the bottom of this piece it's not even the same color at all and that's what how much of a difference you get in terms of the distance you are from objects and what quality they are at this low of a detail setting so you can look at the car the car actually gets like bits added to it as you get closer so that it doesn't have to render as much from further away okay so here's what I'm going to do I'm going to go and I'm going to do a similar run through I want you guys to pay special attention to the FPS counter up there on the top so this is usually one of my first quick tests you know so I blow up some barrels see how that goes see what kind of performance we get everything's looks pretty good so far so let's throw on our speed here so we've the lowest dip we've seen so far is 34 FPS remember my objective when tuning in these settings was to achieve the highest graphical settings and in this case I've gone with resolution versus more details because that makes it more of an Apples to Apples comparison in terms of the GPU processing power of these two cards I mean look at this though look at the grass appearing as I'm driving along the draw distances are so so close the beach just looks like a big white Mass the water just looks like a big gray like big pile of mud Mass um rocks are just kind of randomly appearing as I get closer here watch this rock bam Rock um so yeah I'm trying to get as as high quality and image as I can while not getting below well you can see we dip down to about 27 FPS there but while not getting too much below 30 frames per second oh and I died okay I'll be back in a moment okay there I'm back to the same spot again so yeah like I was saying um as high in image quality settings as possible or as high image quality settings as possible without dipping below 30 FPS or at least not too far below 30 FPS so I'm going to wait for that uh truck to show up and we'll do the uh the explosion that acts as the finale of my little run through here but I mean same thing just draw distance is a big one um texture quality is another big one I mean that Barrel before really drove the point home I think here comes a grenade so boom explosion dips us down to about 30 FPS and I'm dead but that was pretty much all I wanted to say so there's the 8600 GTS super super clocked on my test bench thank you for checking out this little comparison between the GTX 550 TI and it's several year old counterpart so if you were thinking about upgrading from an older directx10 level 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