L40G vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1200not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.70no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRV710AD102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date30 September 2008 (16 years ago)13 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$59 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores8018176
Core clock speed600 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors242 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8001,406
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPS89.97 TFLOPS
ROPs4192
TMUs8568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB24 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed655 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.48 GB/s864.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2008 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 300 Watt

ATI HD 4550 has 1100% lower power consumption.

L40G, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4550 and L40G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4550 is a desktop card while L40G is a workstation one.


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