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Release Period	-	Feb-2010

Radeon HD 5550 512MB Review

The Evergreen series is a family of GPUs developed by AMD graphics products division. The existence was spotted on a presentation slide from AMD Technology Analyst Day July 2007 as 'R8xx'. ATI held a press event in the USS Hornet museum on September 10, 2009 and announced ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and specifications of the Radeon HD 5800 series' variants. The first variants of the Radeon HD 5800 series were launched September 23, 2009, with the HD 5700 series launching October 12 and HD 5970 launching on November 18 The HD 5670, was launched on January 14, 2010, and the HD 5500 and 5400 series were launched in February of 2010, completing what has appeared to be most of ATI's Evergreen GPU lineup.
Demand so greatly outweighed supply that more than two months after launch, many online retailers were still having trouble keeping the 5800 and 5900 series in stock.
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Radeon HD 5550 512MB Performance Specification

Core Speed

Architecture

Memory

Memory Speed

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Memory Type

Memory Bandwidth

Technology

TMUs

Texture Rate

ROPs

Pixel Rate

Shader
Processing Units

Direct X

Shader

Open GL

Resolution (WxH)

Max Power

PSU

GPU Details

550 MHz

Evergreen Redwood LE

512 MB

1000 MHz

128 Bit

GDDR5

64GB/sec

40nm

8.8 GTexel/s

4.4 GPixel/s

320

DX 11

5.0

3.2

2560x1600

39 Watts

400 Watt & 24 Amps

Notebook GPU

SLI/Crossfire

Dedicated

Integrated

VGA Connection

DVI Connection

HDMI Connection

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Best RAM Match

Best Screen Size

GPU Upgrade

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GPU Features

No the Radeon HD 5550 512MB graphics card is NOT a laptop and notebook GPU

Yes the Radeon HD 5550 512MB graphics card can run in parallel to other GPUs using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire technology

Yes the Radeon HD 5550 512MB graphics card is a dedicated GPU

No the Radeon HD 5550 512MB graphics card is NOT an integrated GPU

Pentium Dual Core E5500 2.8GHz

4 GB

1366 x 768

Radeon HD 6850

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Imperializer

21:56 Nov-22-2012

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Saved at: Nov-22-2012

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CPU

Core i5-480M 2.67GHz oc: 15%

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Radeon HD 5550 512MB

RAM

6GB DDR3 1333MHz

RES

1600 x 900
width x height

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Huawei Ascend P1s

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I have it, and it's not all that great. I mean, I can run a lot of things fine, but can't run a lot of the games that are geared towards higher end computers on high.

wildanilham

04:01 Jul-23-2011

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this is great card for me. i can play any game on high

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