3DMark 2000
Since it's really not a DirectX 8 part, we're letting the G550 take on 3DMark 2000 first.

The G550 brings up the rear in this DirectX 7-dependent test. Taking a rather large hit moving from 16 to 32-bit color, there's a high performance penalty to pay when you want the G550 to look really nice.

3DMark 2001
On to DirectX 8 and 3DMark 2001. The G550 gets a chance to redeem itself with something a little more recent.

Unfortunately, none of the cards really has the horsepower to deal with 3DMark 2001. The G550 falls to last place again.

Vulpine GLMark
Moving to OpenGL, we'll give the G550 a crack at Vulpine GLMark.

While only the MX produces an acceptable performance, the G550 really crawls in Vulpine GLMark. At half the performance of the next slowest card, the G550 is hard pressed to compete here.