ATI Radeon™ HD 5550 Grafikkarten

Overview

Next Generation features for everyone.

Low profile graphics card, perfect for small form factor or home theater PCs

ATI Radeon™ HD 5550 graphics card offers the most features and functionality in its class. With ATI Radeon™ HD 5550 graphics cards you get a multi-purpose graphics solution for maximum versatility.

Play the latest games across 3 monitors with ATI Eyefinity Technology¹
Full support for DirectX® 11 and Windows® 7 for a complete experience^3,4

Support and Drivers

Specifications

627 million 40nm transistors
TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
- 320 Stream Processing Units
- 16 Texture Units
- 32 Z/Stencil ROP Units
- 8 Color ROP Units
DDR3/GDDR5 memory interface
PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
DirectX® 11 support
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11
- Programmable hardware tessellation unit
- Accelerated multi-threading
- HDR texture compression
- Order-independent transparency
OpenGL 3.2, 3.3, and 4.0 support¹⁵
Image quality enhancement technology
- Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
- 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology^1,17
- Three independent display controllers
  - Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
- Display grouping
  - Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
ATI Stream acceleration technology
- OpenCL Support¹⁶
- DirectCompute 11
- Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling^2,5
ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology⁶
- Dual GPU scaling
ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Display technology⁷
- UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
- Advanced post-processing and scaling⁸
- Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
- Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
- Independent video gamma control
- Dynamic video range control
- Support for H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, and Adobe Flash⁹
- Dual-stream 1080p playback support^10,11
- DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
- Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP¹²
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
- Integrated DisplayPort output
  - Max resolution: 2560x1600¹³
- HDMI® (With 3D, Deep Color and x.v.Color™)
  - Max resolution: 1920x1200¹³
- Integrated VGA output
  - Max resolution: 2048x1536¹³
- 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support¹⁴
- Integrated HD audio controller
  - Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
  - Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology⁷
- Dynamic power management with low power idle state
- Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feed

Engine clock speed: 550 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 352 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 550M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 35.2 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 8.8 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 4.4 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 17.6 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed:
- DDR3: 800-900 MHz
- GDDR5: 900-1000 MHz
Memory data rate:
- DDR3: 1.6 – 1.8 Gbps
- GDDR5: 3.6 – 4.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth:
- DDR3: 24.5 – 28.8 GB/s
- GDDR5: 57.6 – 64 GB/s
Maximum board power: 39 Watts

System Requirements

Suggested ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 and 5550 512MB DDR3 System Requirements

PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
400 Watt or greater power supply recommended
Certified power supplies are recommended. Refer to http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/listing.aspx for a list of Certified products
Minimum 1GB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive

Support

Automatically detect and install the right driver

Footnotes

ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or DisplayPort™ compliant active adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required. ATI Eyefinity technology can support multiple displays using a single enabled ATI Radeon™ graphics card with Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems - the number of displays may vary by board design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. Systems using multiple ATI Radeon™ graphics cards can support a maximum of 8 displays (total across all cards in system) with a maximum 6 of those displays being used together in a display group (also known as a single large surface mode).
Requires application support for ATI Stream technology.
Windows 7 capable system required.
Blu-Ray drive and HD Monitor Required.
Digital rights management restrictions may apply.
ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply.
ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products.
Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution.
Adobe Flash video acceleration and post-processing is supported for H.264-encoded content. Requires Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in and ATI Catalyst 9.11 or higher video driver.
Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required.
Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams.
Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system.
Some custom resolutions require user configuration.
Requires 3D stereo drivers, glasses, and display.
The OpenGL 4.0 specification preview is available with the ATI Catalyst™ driver version 10.3, full support is scheduled for release later in 2010.
OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010.
ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays.

OpenCL and the OpenCL logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. used by permission by Khronos.