AMD Radeon HD 6550D vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6550D and ATI Radeon HD 4860 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550D

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 55 nm
Launch date 30 June 2011 vs 9 September 2009
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm vs 55 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4860

  • Around 17% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 640 vs 400
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3355 vs 3324
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3355 vs 3324
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines 640 vs 400
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355 vs 3324
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355 vs 3324

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6550D
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4860

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
3355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3324
3355
Name AMD Radeon HD 6550D ATI Radeon HD 4860
PassMark - G3D Mark 401
PassMark - G2D Mark 131
Geekbench - OpenCL 1328
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1382
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1975
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1975
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324 3355

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6550D ATI Radeon HD 4860

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 TeraScale
Code name Llano RV790
Launch date 30 June 2011 9 September 2009
Place in performance rating 1246 1248
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 400 640
Transistor count 1000 Million 959 million
Floating-point performance 896.0 gflops
Texture fill rate 22.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 3.3

Memory

Shared memory 1
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 96.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin