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).

AMD Radeon HD 6550D

ATI Radeon HD 4860

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	1357
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	1238	1240
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