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.

 

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