Mobility Radeon 9550: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Mobility Radeon 9550 sales 1 June 2004. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Rage 9 architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.24 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 3.888 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon 9550: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rage 9 (2003−2006) | |
| GPU code name | M12 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 June 2004 (20 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Mobility Radeon 9550's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon 9550's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 6 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 250 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 210 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 76 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.000 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Mobility Radeon 9550 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | medium sized | |
| Interface | AGP 4x |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon 9550: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 64 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 243 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 3.888 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon 9550. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Mobility Radeon 9550, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Mobility Radeon 9550 according to our statistics.
