ATI Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Card

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Overview
Manufacturer
AMD
Original Series
Radeon HD 4000
Release Date
September 30th, 2008
Launch Price
$59
PCB Code
109-B72531-00
P/N Code
102-B72502-00
Model
AMD B725 SKU 002
Graphics Processing Unit
GPU Model
RV710
Architecture
ATI VLIW5 TeraScale
Fabrication Process
55 nm
Die Size
73 mm2
Transistors Count
242M
Transistors Density
3.3M TRAN/mm2
Stream Cores
80
Thread Processors
8
SIMD Engines
1
TMUs
8
ROPs
4
Clocks
Base Clock
600 MHz
Boost Clock
TBC MHz
Memory Clock
655 MHz
Effective Memory Clock
1310 Mbps
Memory Configuration
Memory Size
256 MB
Memory Type
DDR2
Memory Bus Width
64-bit
Memory Bandwidth
10.5 GB/s

Physical
Interface
PCI-Express 2.0 x16
Height
1-slot
TDP/TBP
25 W
Recommended PSU
300 W
Display Outputs
DVI-I DualLink
1 ×
DisplayPort
1 ×
HDMI
1 ×
API Support
DirectX
10.1
Vulkan
-
OpenGL
3.3
OpenCL
1.2

Performance
Pixel Fillrate
2.4 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate
4.8 GTexel/s
Peak FP32
96 GFLOPS
FP32 Perf. per Watt
3.8 GFLOPS/W
FP32 Perf. per mm2
1.3 GFLOPS/mm2




 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
 
1600
-
 
3.6 Gbps
 
4 GB GD5 256b
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ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
 
1600
-
 
2 Gbps
 
4 GB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon HD 4890
 
800
-
 
3.9 Gbps
 
1 GB GD5 256b
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ATI Radeon HD 4870
 
800
-
 
1.8 Gbps
 
512 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon HD 4850
 
800
-
 
2 Gbps
 
512 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon HD 4730
 
640
 
900 MHz
-
 
512 MB GD5 128b
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ATI Radeon HD 4770
 
640
-
 
3.2 Gbps
 
512 MB GD5 128b
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ATI Radeon HD 4750
 
640
-
 
3.2 Gbps
 
512 MB GD5 128b
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ATI Radeon HD 4860
 
640
-
 
3 Gbps
 
512 MB GD5 256b
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ATI Radeon HD 4830
 
640
-
 
1.8 Gbps
 
512 MB GD3 256b
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ATI Radeon HD 4670
 
320
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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ATI Radeon HD 4650
 
320
-
 
1.4 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 128b
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ATI Radeon HD 4570
 
80
-
 
1 Gbps
 
1 GB D2 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4450
 
80
-
 
1.3 Gbps
 
512 MB D2 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4350
 
80
-
 
800 Mbps
 
512 MB D1 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4550
 
80
-
 
1.3 Gbps
 
256 MB D2 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4550 LP
 
80
-
 
1.3 Gbps
 
256 MB D2 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4250
 
40
-
 
792 Mbps
 
512 MB D2 64b
 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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ATI Radeon HD 4570
 
80
-
 
1 GB/s
 
1 GB D2 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4350
 
80
-
 
800 MB/s
 
512 MB D1 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4450
 
80
-
 
1.3 GB/s
 
512 MB D2 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4550
 
80
-
 
1.3 GB/s
 
256 MB D2 64b
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ATI Radeon HD 4550 LP
 
80
-
 
1.3 GB/s
 
256 MB D2 64b

 ATI Radeon™ HD 4300 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 4350With all the latest features, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 graphics card delivers the performance you need to take your high-definition experience to the next level at home, work and play. Add this graphics card to your PC and watch Blu-ray movies and HD content play with incredible visual fidelity1, and view digital photos with over 1 billion colors2. Enjoy unprecedented levels of graphics realism and play the latest games with support for Microsoft DirectX® 10.1. Do it all with break-through efficiency that doesn’t compromise performance.

Features & Benefits

  •     80 Stream Processing Units provide enough power to tackle demanding games and applications.
  •     Enhanced Anti-Aliasing (AA) & Anisotropic Filtering (AF) – High performance anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing (4X AA) smooth jagged edges and create true-to-life graphics, for everything from grass to facial features.
  •     Watch the hottest Blu-ray movies or other HD content at full 1080p1 display resolution and beyond.3
  •     Integrated DisplayPort technology4 with audio is an innovative digital solution that supports the latest graphics and LCD technologies.
  •     The ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 graphics card consumes less than 25 watts under full load, making it the ideal choice for implementation across a large diverse install base of desktop PCs.
  •     ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card features ATI PowerPlay™ technology, delivering high performance when needed and conserving power when the demand on the graphics processor is low.5

ATI Radeon™ HD 4300 Series GPU Specifications

  • 242 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
  • PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
  • GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 memory interface (depending on model)
  • Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
    • Shader Model 4.1
    • 32-bit floating point texture filtering
    • Indexed cube map arrays
    • Independent blend modes per render target
    • Pixel coverage sample masking
    • Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
    • Gather4 texture fetching
  • Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
    • 80 stream processing units
      • Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
      • Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
      • Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
    • 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
    • Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
    • Shader instruction and constant caches
    • Up to 32 texture fetches per clock cycle
    • Up to 128 textures per pixel
    • Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
    • DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
    • High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
    • Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
    • Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
    • Early Z test and Fast Z Clear
    • Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
    • Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
    • 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
  • Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
    • Programmable tessellation unit
    • Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
    • Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
  • Anti-aliasing features
    • Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
    • Up to 12x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for superior quality
    • Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
    • Gamma correct
    • Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only)
    • All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
  • Texture filtering features
    • 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
    • 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
    • sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
    • Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
    • Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
    • Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
  • OpenGL 3.2 support
  • ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform1
    • 2nd generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2)
      • Enabling hardware decode acceleration of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
    • Hardware MPEG-1 and DivX video decode acceleration
      • Motion compensation and IDCT
    • ATI Avivo Video Post Processor1
      • Color space conversion
      • Chroma subsampling format conversion
      • Horizontal and vertical scaling
      • Gamma correction
      • Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
      • De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
      • Detail enhancement
      • Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
      • Bad edit correction
    • Two independent display controllers
      • Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
      • Full 30-bit display processing
      • Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
      • Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
      • High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
      • Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
      • Fast, glitch-free mode switching
      • Hardware cursor
    • Two integrated DVI display outputs
      • Primary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920×1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560×1600 (dual-link DVI)2
      • Secondary supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920×1200 (single-link DVI only)2
      • Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content3
    • Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
      • Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048×15362
    • DisplayPort™ output support
      • Supports 24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560×16002
      • Integrated HD audio controller with up to 2 channel 48 KHz stereo or multi-channel (7.1) AC3 enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution4
    • HDMI® output support
      • Supports all display resolutions up to 1920×10802
      • Integrated HD audio controller with up to 2 channel 48 KHz stereo or multi-channel (7.1) AC3 enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution4
    • Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
      • Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
      • Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
      • Underscan and overscan compensation
    • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
    • VGA mode support on all display outputs
  • ATI PowerPlay™ Technology5
    • Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
    • Performance-on-Demand
      • Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
      • Clock and memory speed throttling
      • Voltage switching
      • Dynamic clock gating
    • Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
  • ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology6
    • Scale up rendering performance and image quality with two GPUs
    • Integrated compositing engine

ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 Graphics Cards Load Up Compelling Gaming and Multimedia Features

– AMD fills in top-to-bottom ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series DirectX® 10.1 graphics card line-up; some configurations deliver more than seven times the gaming performance of competing integrated motherboard graphics offerings 1 –

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — 9/30/2008 —

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 graphics cards, the latest additions to the award-winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series graphics line up. These feature-rich graphics cards deliver exceptional gaming and HD multimedia performance at value prices. Both cards are based on the same technology found in the celebrated ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series, including support for the latest DirectX® 10.1 games and superior HD multimedia capabilities.

Delivering mainstream-class performance at a value price, the ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics card plays demanding game titles previously unplayable by cards in this price segment2, and for less than USD $59 for a 512MB memory configuration. An even more incredible value, the ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card is the ideal introduction to the ATI Radeon HD 4000 series, priced for less than USD $39 for a 256 MB memory configuration, giving gamers and multimedia enthusiasts more features than products available from the competition today.3

“The ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 and ATI Radeon™ 4350 graphics cards are the final pieces of the puzzle in rounding out the highly successful ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series family,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Products Group, AMD. “AMD set out to lead performance at every price point and today we offer a complete family of graphics cards that delivers on our commitment of winning performance in each market segment.”

Step up your game: The ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 graphics card
The ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 graphics card gives mainstream-class PC game performance at a value price. Derived from the same cutting edge technology found throughout the ATI Radeon HD 4800 family of products and featuring 80 stream processing cores, the card is based on the AMD advanced second generation 55nm process. With 96 GFLOPS of compute power (eight times the raw compute power of the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue), the ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 allows users to unlock new gaming experiences never before playable in this segment2, with full support for DirectX 10.1 games. With incredible power efficiency, operating at less than 20 watts under full load, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 is available as a passively cooled solution so users can access incredible gaming capabilities with a minimum of noise, heat and power consumption. The ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 with a frame buffer of 512MB DDR3 memory is expected to be available in October.

“It’s great to see AMD deliver gaming performance for the mainstream segment,” said Alexander Muller, CEO, SK Gaming International. “People will be excited to know they can get their hands on leading graphics performance at an incredible value price.”

Go beyond HD: The ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 graphics card
With certain card configurations offering more than seven times the gaming performance compared to competing integrated motherboard graphics offerings1, the ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card marks an incredible, low-cost introduction to the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series family. Consuming just 20 watts under full load and featuring a frame buffer of 256MB memory and 7.1 channel audio via HDMI, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 is also expected to be available in October.

Spectacular HD multimedia experience Home theatre enthusiasts should especially appreciate the ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 or the ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 graphics offerings. In addition to superior game performance, these ultra-quiet cards represent a tremendous value for do-it-yourself home theatre PC builders by enabling a feature-rich, high definition and high quality home theatre experience when used in conjunction with HD displays. Like all ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series products, the home theater experience is enriched with features such as AMD’s second generation Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0) ensuring smooth HD media playback, and ATI Avivo™ HD technology that delivers sharp, crisp images and vibrant colors for immersive, cinema-quality home entertainment. 4

Ecosystem support
The ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards are supported by a dozen add-in-board companies offering custom designs of the products. Partners include ASUS, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GECUBE, GIGABYTE, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), Jetway, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE Technology and VisionTek.5

For more information about both products, visit http://www.amd.com/newsroom.

About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading innovator in semiconductor design and manufacturing dedicated to collaborating with customers and partners in ways that ignite the next generation of technology solutions at work, at home and at play. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

1. Certain ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card models deliver up to 7.4 times the performance of competing integrated graphics offerings from Intel in games such as Company of Heroes in 1280×1024 resolutions. Comparison based on internal testing using Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Asus P5Q-EM (E45), 2GB DDR2-800- 5-5-5-18, Microsoft Windows® Vista Ultimate SP1 64bit with an ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 graphics card with 256MB DDR2 memory clocked at 500MHz memory and compared to the same platform without the ATI Radeon™ HD 4350 graphics card. Not all graphics cards available from AMD partners will necessarily have the memory configuration noted in this test case. Results will vary.

2. AMD defines a playable game experience as one where the frame rate is greater or equal to 30 frames per second. Comparisons based on AMD internal testing using AMD Phenom™ processor 9950 (B3)MSI K9A2 (790FX) / ASUS M3N-HT DLX (780a), 2GB DDR2-800 (5-5-5-18 timings), Windows Vista® Ultimate SP1 64-bit. Display driver: 8.53_BR067635-0808142105, nVidia 177.79 WHQL Candidate; AMD Graphics: ATI Radeon™ HD 4550 512MB GDDR3 600e/800m vs. Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT 512MB DDR2 550e/400m. In games including Call of Duty 4 (1280×1024), Devil May Cry (High setting, 1024×768, 4xAA, 8xAF), and Company of Heroes DirectX®10 (Low setting, 1280×1024), the ATI Radeon HD 4550 delivers > 30 frames per second compared to the Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT that delivers < 30 frames per second.

3. The feature set of the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards includes DirectX 10.1 support, DVI-HDMI adapter, 7.1 channel surround audio via HDMI, 7.1 channel surround audio via DisplayPort, cable-free HDMI and enhanced DVD Upscale.

4. ATI Avivo™ HD is a technology platform that includes a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some ATI Avivo™ HD capabilities may require complementary products.

  • 5. Not all partners will deliver all graphics products.