RTX A4500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Place in the ranking	1144	45
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	5.33	19.42
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	M96	GA102
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	5 May 2010 (14 years ago)	23 November 2021 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	320	7168
Core clock speed	450 MHz	1050 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1650 MHz
Number of transistors	514 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	200 Watt
Texture fill rate	14.40	369.6
Floating-point processing power	0.288 TFLOPS	23.65 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	96
TMUs	32	224
Tensor Cores	no data	224
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	20 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	19.2 GB/s	640.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	4.1	6.7
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

−7150%

1450−1500
+7150%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

3−4
−6900%

210−220

+6900%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −6900%	210−220 +6900%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −6900%	210−220 +6900%
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −6900%	70−75 +6900%
Hitman 3	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14 −6983%	850−900 +6983%
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −6567%	400−450 +6567%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 −7158%	2250−2300 +7158%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −6900%	210−220 +6900%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −6900%	210−220 +6900%
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −6900%	70−75 +6900%
Hitman 3	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14 −6983%	850−900 +6983%
Red Dead Redemption 2	0−1	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −6567%	400−450 +6567%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −6900%	700−750 +6900%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 −7158%	2250−2300 +7158%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −6900%	210−220 +6900%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 −6900%	210−220 +6900%
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1
Hitman 3	5−6 −6900%	350−400 +6900%
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14 −6983%	850−900 +6983%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −6567%	400−450 +6567%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	10−11 −6900%	700−750 +6900%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 −7158%	2250−2300 +7158%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

0−1

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	0−1	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	1−2 −6900%	70−75 +6900%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −6900%	70−75 +6900%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −6900%	70−75 +6900%
Hitman 3	7−8 −7043%	500−550 +7043%
Horizon Zero Dawn	4−5 −7150%	290−300 +7150%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	0−1	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −6900%	140−150 +6900%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

3−4
−6900%

210−220

+6900%

4K
High Preset

Far Cry New Dawn

0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −6900%	70−75 +6900%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	0−1	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

2−3
−6900%

140−150

+6900%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 550v and RTX A4500 compete in popular games:

RTX A4500 is 7150% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.77	56.08
Recency	5 May 2010	23 November 2021
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	20 GB
Chip lithography	55 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	10 Watt	200 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 550v has 1900% lower power consumption.

RTX A4500, on the other hand, has a 7183.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 years, a 1900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 587.5% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX A4500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 550v in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 550v is a notebook card while RTX A4500 is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.