Radeon HD 4550 vs Radeon HD 5490

Radeon HD 4550
Memory: 256Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4550
Radeon HD 5490
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Oct 2012
Radeon HD 5490

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4550

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5490

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4550Radeon HD 5490
GPU NameRV710 ()vsCedar (Cedar XTX)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size73 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors242 millionvs292 million
Shaders80vs80
Compute Units1vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs4vs4
TMUs8vs8

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4550Radeon HD 5490
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed655 MHz
1310 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4550Radeon HD 5490
TDP25 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2008vs28 Oct 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4550
    2.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5490
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4550
    4.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5490
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4550
    10.50 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5490
    8.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4550
    96.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5490
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better