AMD Radeon HD 6550M videocard review

AMD Radeon HD 6550M

Radeon HD 6550M videocard released by AMD; release date: 26 November 2010. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Capilano.

Core clock speed - 600 MHz. Texture fill rate - 12 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 400. Floating-point performance - 480.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 627 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 26 Watt.

Memory type: DDR3. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1800 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 28.8 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Games performance

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x768184.80
Medium, 1360x76843.95
High, 1360x76827.75
Ultra, 1920x108015.80

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x60056.80
Medium, 1360x76826.10
High, 1600x90013.90
Ultra, 1920x10804.60

Left 4 Dead (2008)

Low, 640x480164.50
High, 1024x768105.70

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

Low, 800x600151.95
Medium, 1024x76866.00
High, 1280x102435.00

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x76898.10
Medium, 1024x76860.60
High, 1024x76831.10
Ultra, 1920x10808.20

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768189.00

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2
Code name Capilano
Launch date 26 November 2010
Place in performance rating not rated
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm
Pipelines 400
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 26 Watt
Transistor count 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-II
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3
Shared memory 0

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