ATI Radeon HD 4550: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

ATI started Radeon HD 4550 sales 30 September 2008 at a recommended price of $59 . This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 1.31 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 10.48 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 25 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.61% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 4550: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking1158
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV710
Market segmentDesktop
Release date30 September 2008 (15 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$59
Current price$116 (2x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Radeon HD 4550's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 4550's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores80of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed600 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors242 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)25 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate4.800of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance96 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 4550 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
Length168 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 4550: 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 typeDDR2
Maximum RAM amount256 MBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed1310 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth10.48 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 4550. 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 DisplayPort
HDMI+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 4550, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 4550. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 4550 0.61

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 4550 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.

Relative perfomance

Radeon HD 4550's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 4550 is GeForce 7800 GT, which is faster by 3% and higher by 10 positions in our ranking.

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