ATI Radeon 9500 vs ATI Mobility HD 4550

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Mobility Radeon HD 4550 with Radeon 9500, including specs and performance data.

ATI Mobility HD 4550
2010
512 MB GDDR3, DDR2, DDR3
0.33
+267%

ATI Mobility HD 4550 outperforms ATI 9500 by a whopping 267% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking13021453
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.51
ArchitectureTerascale 1 (2010)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameM92R300
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 January 2010 (14 years ago)1 March 2003 (21 year 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 cores80no data
Core clock speed550 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistors242 million110 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data12 Watt
Texture fill rate4.4001.100
Floating-point processing power0.088 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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).

InterfaceMXM-IIAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3, DDR2, DDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz270 MHz
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/s17.28 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/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 HD10
+400%
2−3
−400%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 2−3 0−1

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3 0−1
Hitman 3 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
+300%
2−3
−300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
+300%
7−8
−300%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3 0−1
Hitman 3 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
+300%
2−3
−300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
+350%
2−3
−350%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
+300%
7−8
−300%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4 0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3 0−1
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3 0−1
Hitman 3 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
+300%
2−3
−300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5
+300%
1−2
−300%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 9−10
+350%
2−3
−350%
Watch Dogs: Legion 27−30
+300%
7−8
−300%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 0−1
Hitman 3 6−7
+500%
1−2
−500%
Horizon Zero Dawn 2−3 0−1

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3 0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 1−2 0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 0−1 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3 0−1

This is how ATI Mobility HD 4550 and ATI 9500 compete in popular games:

  • ATI Mobility HD 4550 is 400% faster in 1080p

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.33 0.09
Recency 1 January 2010 1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 64 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm

ATI Mobility HD 4550 has a 266.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

The Mobility Radeon HD 4550 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon 9500 in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 4550 is a notebook card while Radeon 9500 is a desktop one.


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