Radeon 9550 XT: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started Radeon 9550 XT sales 4 May 2005. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Rage 8 architecture and made with 130 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 128 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.33 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 10.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon 9550 XT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Rage 8 (2002−2007) | |
| GPU code name | RV350 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 4 May 2005 (19 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon 9550 XT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon 9550 XT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 425 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 60 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 130 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.700 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon 9550 XT 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).
| Interface | AGP 8x | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon 9550 XT: 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 | 128 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 325 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 10.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon 9550 XT. 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 | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon 9550 XT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0 (9_0) | |
| OpenGL | 2.0 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
