RTX A5500 Mobile vs ATI Radeon X1550 AGP

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated77
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.84
ArchitectureUltra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV505GA103
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date2007 (17 years ago)22 March 2022 (2 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 coresno data7424
Core clock speed600 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors107 million22,000 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt165 Watt
Texture fill rate2.400348.0
Floating-point processing powerno data22.27 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs4232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Coresno data58

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 MB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed660 MBps2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth5.28 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 165 Watt

ATI X1550 AGP has 511.1% lower power consumption.

RTX A5500 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1025% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1550 AGP and RTX A5500 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1550 AGP is a desktop card while RTX A5500 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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