Radeon R3 Graphics vs ATI Mobility HD 550v

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1144not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.35no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameM96Beema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 May 2010 (14 years ago)28 January 2015 (9 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 cores320128
Core clock speed450 MHz267 MHz
Boost clock speedno data600 MHz
Number of transistors514 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate14.404.800
Floating-point processing power0.288 TFLOPS0.1536 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs328

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed600 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth19.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.3
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2010 28 January 2015
Chip lithography 55 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 15 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 550v has 50% lower power consumption.

R3 Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 96.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 550v and Radeon R3 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 550v is a notebook card while Radeon R3 Graphics is a desktop one.


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