AMD Radeon HD 7550M vs ATI FireMV 2250

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7550M and ATI FireMV 2250 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon HD 7550M

ATI FireMV 2250

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7550M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
5x more texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 32 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
10.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 465 vs 46
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 290

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2012 vs 1 January 2007
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 32 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	465 vs 46
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 290

Reasons to consider the ATI FireMV 2250

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7550M
GPU 2: ATI FireMV 2250

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

465

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

290

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7550M	ATI FireMV 2250
PassMark - G3D Mark	465	46
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	290
Geekbench - OpenCL	5371

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7550M	ATI FireMV 2250
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	R500
Code name	Thames	RV516
Launch date	7 January 2012	1 January 2007
Place in performance rating	561	562
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	550 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	400
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt	32 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x S-Video, 1x DMS-59
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		170 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5 / DDR3	DDR2
Shared memory	0