Apollo Lake GT1 5 vs ATI Radeon X550

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1432not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Generation 9.0 (2015−2016)
GPU code nameRV370Apollo Lake GT1 5
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 July 2005 (19 years ago)no data (2024 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 coresno data144
Core clock speed400 MHzno data
Number of transistors107 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology110 nm14 nm
Texture fill rate1.600no data
ROPs43
TMUs418

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 1.0 x16no 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 typeDDRno data
Maximum RAM amount128 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth8 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 VGA, 1x S-Videono data

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.012.0 (12_1)
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 110 nm 14 nm

Apollo Lake GT1 5 has a 685.7% more advanced lithography process.

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