Radeon HD 5550: specs and benchmarks

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Radeon HD 5550 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.98% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 5550 sales 9 February 2010. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 165 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 39 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 5550: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1115
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.72of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameRedwood
Market segmentDesktop
Release date9 February 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 5550's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 5550's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed550 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors627 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)39 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate8.800of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.352 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs8of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs16of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 5550 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length165 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 5550: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed800 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 5550. 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 5550, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 5550. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

ATI HD 5550 0.98

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI HD 5550 376

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 5550 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 5550's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 5550 is GeForce GT 620, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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