ATI Radeon HD 5550 vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5550 and ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 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 Radeon HD 5550

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 80x more pipelines: 320 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
  • 8.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 377 vs 43
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 9 February 2010 vs 30 August 2006
Pipelines 320 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 377 vs 43

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 197 vs 185
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 197 vs 185

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5550
GPU 2: ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
377
43
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
185
197
Name ATI Radeon HD 5550 ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
PassMark - G3D Mark 377 43
PassMark - G2D Mark 185 197

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5550 ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2
Code name Redwood
Launch date 9 February 2010 30 August 2006
Place in performance rating 899 890
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 320 4
Texture fill rate 8.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 39 Watt
Transistor count 627 million
Boost clock speed 400 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 165 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 1