ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 vs ATI Mobility
Aggregate performance score
We've compared Mobility Radeon and Mobility Radeon HD 4550, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.
Mobility outperforms Mobility HD 4550 by a whopping 237% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1105 | 1352 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Rage 6 (2000−2007) | Terascale 1 (2010) |
| GPU code name | M6 | M92 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 1 December 2001 (24 years ago) | 1 January 2010 (16 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 | no data | 80 |
| Core clock speed | 144 MHz | 550 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 30 million | 242 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 180 nm | 55 nm |
| Texture fill rate | 0.43 | 4.400 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 0.088 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 1 | 4 |
| TMUs | 3 | 8 |
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).
| Interface | AGP 4x | MXM-II |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 | DDR | GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 MB | 512 MB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 144 MHz | 700 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 2.304 GB/s | 11.2 GB/s |
| Shared memory | no data | - |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 7.0 | 10.1 (10_1) |
| Shader Model | no data | 4.1 |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | 3.3 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 1.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
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 | 30−35
+200%
| 10
−200%
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FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2
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1−2
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Full HD
Medium
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2
+0%
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1−2
+0%
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| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5
+0%
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4−5
+0%
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| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8
+0%
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7−8
+0%
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| Valorant | 24−27
+0%
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24−27
+0%
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Full HD
High
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 14−16
+0%
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14−16
+0%
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2
+0%
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1−2
+0%
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| Dota 2 | 10−11
+0%
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10−11
+0%
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| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5
+0%
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4−5
+0%
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| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8
+0%
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7−8
+0%
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| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6
+0%
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5−6
+0%
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| Valorant | 24−27
+0%
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24−27
+0%
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Full HD
Ultra
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 1−2
+0%
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1−2
+0%
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| Dota 2 | 10−11
+0%
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10−11
+0%
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| Forza Horizon 4 | 4−5
+0%
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4−5
+0%
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| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 7−8
+0%
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7−8
+0%
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| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 5−6
+0%
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5−6
+0%
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| Valorant | 24−27
+0%
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24−27
+0%
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1440p
High
| Counter-Strike 2 | 3−4
+0%
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3−4
+0%
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| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive | 1−2
+0%
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1−2
+0%
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| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 4−5
+0%
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4−5
+0%
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1440p
Ultra
| Forza Horizon 4 | 1−2
+0%
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1−2
+0%
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| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 1−2
+0%
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1−2
+0%
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1440p
Epic
| Fortnite | 0−1 | 0−1 |
4K
High
| Grand Theft Auto V | 14−16
+0%
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14−16
+0%
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| Valorant | 2−3
+0%
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2−3
+0%
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4K
Ultra
| PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS | 1−2
+0%
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1−2
+0%
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4K
Epic
| Fortnite | 2−3
+0%
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2−3
+0%
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This is how ATI Mobility and ATI Mobility HD 4550 compete in popular games:
- ATI Mobility is 200% faster in 1080p
All in all, in popular games:
- there's a draw in 27 tests (100%)
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.18 | 0.35 |
| Recency | 1 December 2001 | 1 January 2010 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 MB | 512 MB |
| Chip lithography | 180 nm | 55 nm |
ATI Mobility has a 237% higher aggregate performance score.
ATI Mobility HD 4550, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 227% more advanced lithography process.
The Mobility Radeon is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 4550 in performance tests.
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