ATI Radeon 9550 vs ATI HD 4350 AGP

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1459
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameRV710RV350
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 September 2008 (16 years ago)1 October 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 speed600 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors242 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.8001.000
Floating-point processing power0.096 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).

InterfaceAGP 8xAGP 8x
Width1-slot1-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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth10.4 GB/s6.4 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 VGA, 1x S-Video1x 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

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2008 1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 64 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 130 nm

ATI HD 4350 AGP has an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 136.4% more advanced lithography process.

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