AMD Radeon HD 6550A videocard review

Radeon HD 6550A videocard released by AMD; release date: 7 February 2011. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Pinewood.

Core clock speed - 550 MHz. Texture fill rate - 15.6 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 480. Floating-point performance - 624.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 627 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 35 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 2 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1600 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 28.8 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38588

708

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1295

609

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	708
PassMark - G2D Mark	609

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Code name	Pinewood
Launch date	7 February 2011
Place in performance rating	221
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	627 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3