AMD Radeon HD 6550M videocard review

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

1. StarCraft 2 (2010)
2. Metro 2033 (2010)
3. Left 4 Dead (2008)

4. Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)
5. Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)
6. Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x768	184.80
Medium, 1360x768	43.95
High, 1360x768	27.75
Ultra, 1920x1080	15.80

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x600	56.80
Medium, 1360x768	26.10
High, 1600x900	13.90
Ultra, 1920x1080	4.60

Left 4 Dead (2008)

Low, 640x480	164.50
High, 1024x768	105.70

Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (2007)

Low, 800x600	151.95
Medium, 1024x768	66.00
High, 1280x1024	35.00

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	98.10
Medium, 1024x768	60.60
High, 1024x768	31.10
Ultra, 1920x1080	8.20

Half Life 2 - Lost Coast Benchmark (2005)

High, 1024x768

189.00

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