ATI Radeon HD 5550 videocard review

Radeon HD 5550 videocard released by ATI; release date: 9 February 2010. The videocard is designed for desktop-computers and based on TeraScale 2 microarchitecture codenamed Redwood.

Core clock speed - 550 MHz. Texture fill rate - 8.8 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 320. Floating-point performance - 352.0 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 627 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 39 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR5. Maximum RAM amount - 512 MB. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory clock speed - 3200 MHz. Memory bandwidth - 51.2 GB / s.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

38534

377

PassMark
G2D Mark

Top 1 GPU

This GPU

1294

185

Name	Value
PassMark - G3D Mark	377
PassMark - G2D Mark	185

Specifications (specs)

Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2
Code name	Redwood
Launch date	9 February 2010
Place in performance rating	897
Type	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	39 Watt
Transistor count	627 million

Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	165 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5