ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v videocard review

Mobility Radeon HD 550v videocard released by ATI; release date: 5 May 2010. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on TeraScale microarchitecture codenamed M96.

Core clock speed - 450 MHz. Texture fill rate - 14.4 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 320. Floating-point performance - 288 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 55 nm. Transistors count - 514 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 10 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2. Maximum RAM amount - 1 GB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 1200 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 19.2 GB / s. Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38529

266

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1294

398

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	266
PassMark - G2D Mark	398

Games performance

StarCraft 2 (2010)

Low, 1024x768	144.80
Medium, 1360x768	33.20
High, 1360x768	19.00

Metro 2033 (2010)

Low, 800x600	32.60
Medium, 1360x768	20.30

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x768	82.30
Medium, 1024x768	46.50
High, 1024x768	23.90

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale
Code name	M96
Launch date	5 May 2010
Place in performance rating	396
Type	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt
Transistor count	514 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1
OpenGL	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2
Shared memory	0