Radeon HD 2400 vs Radeon HD 4550

Radeon HD 2400
Memory: 256Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Feb 2008
Radeon HD 2400
Radeon HD 4550
Memory: 256Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4550

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 2400

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4550

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 4550

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4550

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 2400Radeon HD 4550
GPU NameRV610 ()vsRV710 ()
Fab Process65 nmvs55 nm
Die Size85 mm²vs73 mm²
Transistors180 millionvs242 million
Shaders40vs80
Compute Units2vs1
Core clock398 MHzvs600 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs4vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 2400Radeon HD 4550
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR2
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed495 MHz
990 MHz effective
vs655 MHz
1310 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs256 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 2400Radeon HD 4550
TDP20 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date19 Feb 2008vs30 Sep 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 2400
    1.59 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4550
    2.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 2400
    1.59 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4550
    4.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 2400
    7.92 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4550
    10.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 2400
    31.84 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4550
    96.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better