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Published: 2008-12-28
Good: Wide range of supported FSAA modes, Best edge detect CFAA quality in the industry, Excellent quality of anisotropic filtering, DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1 support, Fullyfledged hardware HD video decoding, Highquality HD video postprocessing with sca...
Bad: Extremely low performance in contemporary games
Bottomline: There are both highs and lows about the Radeon HD 4550 graphics card we have tested today. Priced at $50, it offers a lot of features such as the hardware video-decoder ATI UVD2 that can decode H.264 and VC-1 formats (Nvidia’s solutions have more li...
Good: Passive no fan noise, Great overclocking, Extremely Low power consumption, Low temperatures idle and load, Native HDMI and DisplayPort
Bad: Very limited 3D performance
Bottomline: AMDs new HD 4550 is a great evolutionary step up from the HD 3450. The 3D performance has greatly increased, yet this is definitely not a gamers card. While you can certainly play most games at modest resolutions with some eye candy, many people have...
Bottomline: The HD 4550 is good budget/value class video card. It has a generous host of features, most notably the ability to play and process high-definition video without demanding much from your CPU, courtesy of the UVD 2 engine. In addition, the inclusion of...
Bottomline: In its category the Radeon HD 4550 delivers a convincing performance. The direct competition in form of the Geforce 9400 GT is continuously beaten in games and the power consumption is on the same low level. On the other hand the Geforce card is a chea...
Bottomline: The new Radeon HD 4550 struggled in most of our in-game tests and benchmarks. It managed to pull ahead of the previous-gen 120 steam processor Radeon HD 3650 in a couple of tests, but more often than not the Radeon HD 4550 trailed our reference cards...
Bottomline: As it stands, AMD has completed a top-to-bottom 4-series line-up with the release of the ATI Radeon HD 4550. Performance is better than its immediate rival(s), helped by the efficiency of the architecture, but its not the beneficiary of a massive per...
Abstract: Going by recent events, ATI has had a busy month with new mainstream and value segment GPUs launching at a steady pace. We have all seen the debut of the Radeon HD 4670 earlier this month, with the 4650 following that shortly. The next ste...
Abstract: ATI Radeon 4550 Performance PreviewIt’s been an extraordinary summer for ATI graphics. Without a doubt, their revolutionary RV7xx graphics architecture delivers an unprecedented level of performance per square millimeter. This allows cards like ...
Bottomline: The Radeon HD 4550 is what it is really, dont expect much from it other then the fact you have a versatile product for roughly 50 USD in your hands. Playing modern games with reasonable image quality settings ? Forget about it, absolutely no way. Tho...