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: 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: From what we saw today however, the GeForce 9400 GT needs some improvements to match the Radeon HD 4550. In terms of performance, the 4550 was always faster than the 9400 GT, though this margin varied from game to game. When it came to power consumption, the Radeon again had the advantage, albeit a rather slight one..
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...
Bottomline: The AMD Radeon HD 4550 has a great feature set, but NVIDIA already has faster performing cards that cost less on the market already with the likes of the GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce 9600 GSO. ...
Bottomline: The AMD Radeon 4550 fits again into an interesting posistion somewhat like the Radeon 4670. It is low on power consumption and does boast all the great HTPC features of the 4000 series of cards but for a suggest $55 price, which were sure though will ...
Good: Good performance for the asking price, inbuilt HDMI connector, passively cooled for sound-free operation
Bad: Benchmarks were significantly worse than the HD 4670 (which only costs a bit more)
Bottomline: The HD 4550 is a good, affordable option for high-def movie playback and occasional gaming. However, unless you’re on a shoestring budget, we’d recommend the HD 4670 instead. It offers a vastly superior graphics performance for a slightly high...
Bottomline: It is hard not to be impressed by the Radeon HD 4550 when looking at how it compares to its direct competition, the 9400 GT. In each of the games we tested the ATI card was able to outperform the card from Nvidia and although there were cases such as ...
Abstract: A budget card that packs a surprisingly powerful 3D punch for the price AMD has finally filled out the bottom-end of its HD 4000 range of graphics cards. The ATI Radeon HD 4550 is the cheapest card in the series, with a suggested launch price in the U...
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