Radeon X1550: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon X1550 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.15% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

ATI started Radeon X1550 sales on 2007. This is an Ultra-Threaded SE architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 800 MBps are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 12.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 27 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon X1550: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1469
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency0.45of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureUltra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)
GPU code nameRV516
Market segmentDesktop
Release date2007 (18 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon X1550's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon X1550's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed550 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors105 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology90 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)27 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate2.200of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs4of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs4of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon X1550 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 1.0 x16
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon X1550: 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed800 MBpsof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon X1550. 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 VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Radeon X1550, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model3.0
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon X1550. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

ATI X1550
0.15

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

ATI X1550 66
Samples: 31

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon X1550 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.

Closest competitors

Radeon X1550's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Radeon X1650 106.67
Radeon X1550 100
Radeon X1300 86.67

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