ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v vs ATI Radeon X800

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v and ATI Radeon X800 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.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

ATI Radeon X800

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
3x more texture fill rate: 14.4 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 110 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 30 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
Around 71% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 700 MHz

Launch date	5 May 2010 vs 1 October 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 30 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 700 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v	ATI Radeon X800
PassMark - G3D Mark	266
PassMark - G2D Mark	398

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v	ATI Radeon X800
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	R400
Code name	M96	R430
Launch date	5 May 2010	1 October 2004
Place in performance rating	423	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	320
Texture fill rate	14.4 GTexel / s	4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	30 Watt
Transistor count	514 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0b
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3, DDR3, DDR2	DDR
Shared memory	0