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AMD Radeon HD 5550

The AMD Radeon HD 5550 is a graphics card released on February 9, 2010. It has 2 GB of video memory and a 39 W board power rating. It scores 385 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.5 and OpenCL 1.2.

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4/10 key specs recorded · 18 facts

Depth: 27 recorded fields, 4 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified August 11, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

2 GB

Boost clock

n/a

Board power

39 W

Performance

The AMD Radeon HD 5550 scores 385 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 31.9% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,007), measured across 321 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 186.

PassMark G3D Mark

385

Rank #2,007
Faster than 31.9% of 2,658 GPUs
321 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 11 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 21.8% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 4 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 7.8% of 1,430 GPUs

GPU Compute 218 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 8.5% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Radeon HD 5550 averages DirectX 9 11 fps, DirectX 10 1 fps, DirectX 11 4 fps and GPU Compute 218 ops/s, across 321 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 2.1 x16

Max memory 2 GB

Core clock 550,550,550 MHz

Memory clock 400,800,800 MHz

DirectX 11

OpenGL 4.4

Max TDP 39 W

First benchmarked 2010-05-01

Samples 321

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon HD 5550 states the PCIe 2.1 x16 interface, up to 2 GB of memory, a core clock of 550,550,550 MHz, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4, first benchmarked on 2010-05-01. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.