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How much are you ready to spend on a video card for your computer? Depending on what type of computer user you are the figure will be very different. Computer enthusiasts like most of us reading this site probably are prepared to put a few $100 on a good card, but for a lot of [...]

While we don’t doubt for a second that everyone would love to find themselves surrounded by the most high-end computer products, the reality is that sometimes it’s simply too expensive or there’s the plain old fact that you don’t need it. The low to mid-range market has been heating up over the past few months; [...]

When it comes to GPUs, everyone always looks to the top end cards to judge the current performance available on the market. Really though, the majority of money is made in the mid and budget range cards as that’s what everyone can afford. The main problem with these though, is often the performance doesn’t allow [...]

AMD planned the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4550 graphics card many months ago, but oddly enough this entry level graphics card comes to light amid the worst point drop the DOW has seen to date. It almost seems right that in a time where financial stability is uncertain that AMD would launch a [...]

ATI has been releasing new video cards on a fast pace recently with the release of the HD 4870, 4850, 4870 X2, 4670, 4650, and now the 4550 each targeting different video card segments from the high-end to the mainstream value segments. The 4870 and 4850 are the king of the hill of their respective [...]

At the time of AMD’s introduction of the ATI RV770 graphics processor and Radeon HD 4870 videocard back in mid-2008, it was also secretly working on plans to transition the same graphics processor technology into a stripped down mid-range part. The subsequent Radeon HD 4850 and the Radeon HD 4830 videocards born of that effort, [...]

Last week we took a look at a $80 mainstream ATI card, the HD 4670. This time around, we are going to look at something from the next rung down on the performance ladder — the value, or sometimes referred to as the budget, segment of the market. Released today, this is the HD 4550. [...]

The discrete graphics-card market is owned by two companies right now: NVIDIA and AMD (ATI), and both companies have had their share of successes and failures.Right now, in terms of pure technology, AMD is slightly ahead, having successfully brought in the 4-series GPUs this summer and autumn. The one missing piece from the top-to-bottom jigsaw [...]

ATI continues to pump out new graphics cards based on the 4000 series. It was only a little over a week ago that the 4670 was revealed and today we have a new card to look at, AMD’s Radeon HD 4550. This one is targeting a market quite a bit under even the $79 MSRP [...]

Sapphire places on the Polish market products targeted at mainstream segment – 512MB of GDDR3 HD 4550 and HD 4350 512MB DDR2. These cards are based on the architecture of the very successful series of graphics cards HD 4000 Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 has 80 stream processors and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. Taktujący GPU [...]