Thursday, June 24th 2010
Club3D Intros Radeon HD 5550 Card with 2 GB Memory
If you absolutely need 2 GB of video memory to talk about in your rig, Club3D developed an easy means to get there. Its latest ATI Radeon HD 5550 variant boasts of 2 GB of DDR3 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface, and some out of the box overclocked speeds. The single-slot full-height card uses an active GPU cooler, and draws all its power from the PCI-E slot. The DirectX 11 compliant Radeon HD 5550 GPU has 320 stream processors, and a 128-bit wide memory interface, with clock speeds of 650 MHz core, 1200 MHz (2400 MHz effective) memory. Display connectivity includes one each of DVI-D, D-Sub, and HDMI. Club3D did not give out a price.
74 Comments on Club3D Intros Radeon HD 5550 Card with 2 GB Memory
As posted a few back The 4670 SMOKES it .......... = POS
I'm done fighting.
The facts are laying for you right there jokerrr, but it's your decision on whether or not you want to believe these facts. So im not arguing with ya.
i want to use my 8800gtx along with a 5550 and my new Q8400 with my old C2D CPU to work together to increase performance.
So many times I had better cards with smaller RAM amount and people always take the one with more RAM! Even if it's a slower card and costs more!! For example just the other day a kid came in and said he wanted to upgrade his 3GHZ P4 with a decent video card to play Modern Warfare. He didn't want to spend much and I happened to have a 8600GTS 256MB GDDR3 for cheaper than everything else at the time. I suggested that to him and he looks at it and says "its only 256MB" and then he sees our usual cheap card the 8400GS 512MB DDR2 and says "I'll take that" to witch I pause, look at him and say "Okay.... you know it's slower right?" and I'm about to start rambling off specs when I just say Fuck it. He looked at me like I'm trying to fuck him around and instead He paid like $10 more for the 8400GS because it was a 512MB card.
This exact type of thing happens at least once a week. It's actually frustrating because I want to do my best to try and help customers get the best of what they need for the price they want. But sometimes they just won't listen!
the more video memory, the better.
He's delusional.:shadedshu (he was probably that same kid that came into your shop lol)
So I guess he thinks he's going to buy a 5550 and play Crysis on Ultra High? Wow.
Oh and it has DX11 support? Really? Because we didn't know that already.
Can't compare video cards to cars He says? Well boasting that this card has DX11 support is like bragging about your stock Toyota Corolla having Z Rated tires on it. Sure the tires can handle 170MPH but the engine doesn't have the HP to get there.
DX11 games are demanding and this GPU (engine) doesn't have the HP to realistically use it. It would run Dirt2 or AvP in DX11 on high settings at WAY too low a framerate to be playable. So what your going to do is run games on low in DX11 or you could run them on high in DX9. Games look better in DX9 if you can put the settings on high compared to using DX11 and having to turn them all down! So low end cards having DX11 support isn't that big a deal and if you're a gamer it shouldn't even be a deciding factor.
The 4870 has 800 Stream processing cores and this has 320. The 4870 GPU is clocked at 750MHZ and this is only 550MHZ. Oh and yeah this has 2GB of RAM but it's slower DDR3 on a narrow 128-bit bus. The 4870 has DDR5 on a wider 256-bit bus. So yeah this card has 4 times the RAM but its also FOUR TIMES SLOWER!
Now is there anything wrong with mainstream cards? Low power cards? No. The 5550/5570 isn't a bad card for the price. But its going to get destroyed by something like a 4870! That's a fact!
its very clear you are only here to troll. stop it now.
im not saying 5550 is a fast card. but i am saying that these days games starting to utilize 1GB and over VRAM and also quad cores.
mdsx1950: if u are against the more VRAM, then how come u have 2 5970 and each of them has 2GB of VRAM then? why didnt u choose a card like 5770? why u chose 2 5970?????
i just think that u are a hungry glutton since u had to settle for 2 5970. its just silly.
he can buy whatever he can afford. stop being jealous.
You've already been warned on the trolling, continue and it will have consequences.
but i would be happy that Nvidia an ATI make less high end GPUs and more budget GPUs.
5550 512 1gig 2gigs ddr2 ddr3 ddr5 (just an example)
every low end gpu comes in around 10 flavors if you want a more convoluted system where the average consumer knows even LESS then sure lets give them more choices that they can be brainwashed with
i remember when things were simple x300 x600 x800 or the same from nvidia where the x is the series the second number performance range now we got from nvidia 460 465 470 soon to be my guess 475 480 then 485 in 1 segment but this applies to other segments examples look at the 9600gt gs gso and there many incarnations or the and hell 9400 is now an integrated part
use to be 3 ranges now theres x100 x200 x300 x400 x500 x600 x800 x900 then theres the xx50 xx70 xx90 the way it stands adding more choice would just screw things up more then they already are and that goes to both companies theres a reason the saying keep it simple stupid exists but then again brainwashing ppl and giving them a metric ton of choices makes just as much money and moves just as many gpus including garbage ones they need to salvage.
and if adding more ram gets them more money thats what they will do..
but in all honesty a 5300 5500 5700 ad 5900 series cards would be enough considering the 3 cards per tier thats used now since that effectively would allow 12 gpus skus then add in ddr3 or ddr 5 thats 24 skus toss in DDR2 and u hit 36 gpu choices that would be plenty... im to lazy to look right now but id say the hd 5000 series has more then 40 + skus on the market thats alot of choices and considering greater then half are in the lower segment your talking about. Id say theres plenty of choice for the every day sheeple to browse through
also need to take into account different manufacturers aka Gigabyte Msi Asus sapphire afx evga bfg w/e then add those skus to different manuf to choose from make there own edits to say the 5550 say that came in ddr2 ddr3 and ddr5 thats 3 version of 1 gpu then add 512 ram 1 gig and 2 gig thats 6 version of 1 gpu now add in reference vs special versions with different coolers overclocked or non overclocked etc etc there again MORE then enough choices for low and mid range gpus way more then needed to the point of market flooding... / end rant
if thats the case then why we should keep quiet?
we can easily sue them and get money out of them.
thats what i want to do. my best friend is a lawyer, im going to ask him to sue ATI for trying to confuse and scam us. i mean it.
im looking to get $1 million to $20 million out of them.