Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics vs ATI HD 5550

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1108not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.73no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameRedwoodSpectre Lite
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date9 February 2010 (14 years ago)17 February 2014 (10 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 cores320384
Core clock speed550 MHz554 MHz
Boost clock speedno data800 MHz
Number of transistors627 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)39 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate8.80013.30
Floating-point processing power0.352 TFLOPS0.4255 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1624

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length165 mmno data
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/sno 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 HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.0
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 February 2010 17 February 2014
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 39 Watt 90 Watt

ATI HD 5550 has 130.8% lower power consumption.

R7 Mobile Graphics, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5550 and Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5550 is a desktop card while Radeon R7 Mobile Graphics is a notebook one.


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