When you hear the expression “graphics card”, the first thing that probably comes to mind is beasts from the high price segment. Well, this time we’ll deal with models that don’t require you to spend hundreds of euros for a graphics card. The two Radeon HD 5550 models that we’ve received have little in common [...]

After the Radeon HD 6800 series, the rest of AMD’s Northern Islands family of GPUs seem to be taking their own sweet time making it to the market. With the HD 6900 series almost certain to be off its November 22 launch date, lower-end GPUs slated for early 2011 are still far away. Meanwhile Sapphire [...]

A few weeks back, AMD quietly released a couple of new graphics cards in the Radeon HD 5500 series. For a while there, starting with the Radeon HD 5870 in late September of last year, it seemed like AMD was releasing a new series of graphics cards aimed at different price points, practically every few [...]

ASUS has released a new graphics card, EAH5550 (Radeon HD 5550) which comes bundled together with the popular multiplayer video game Battlefield 2: Bad Company. The card dubbed EAH5550 SILENT/G/DI/1GD2 contains 1 GB of GDDR2 memory, is passivelly cooled and produces 0 dBA of noise, and is fully compatible with DirectX 11 and Windows 7. [...]

Are you looking for a new video card for your system? If you’re looking for something that’s going to be able to play just about all the games out there; but maximum settings are not a requirement, you may just be in luck with two of the newest budget cards from Sapphire. They have just [...]

To retain modest pricing, it’s common to see lower-end graphics cards equipped with either DDR2 or DDR3. That design choice, though, can have a major effect on performance, something that’s proven twice over with AMD’s Radeon HD 5550 and HD 5570, both of which have just been upgraded with a move to GDDR5 memory. In [...]

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 [...]

If you want to play games on your PC, in most situations, we recommend you spend at least $100 USD on getting a video card. You can get very reasonable gaming performance for a video card around $100, such as say, currently a last-gen HD 4850, or NVIDIA’s workhorse G92-GPU 8800 GT / 9800 GT, [...]

Another month and, surprise-surprise, it’s another new ATI 5000-series graphics card. The HD 5550 sits towards the lower end of the range, and it would be easy to dismiss as yet one more under-powered card. However, this Ultimate version does have the distinction of being the most powerful card in ATI’s current line up to [...]

SAPPHIRE Technology has just added a new silent cooled model to its extensive range of ATI-based graphics cards. The award winning ULTIMATE Series is SAPPHIRE Technology’s Silent Cooled product line. The SAPPHIRE HD 5550 ULTIMATE is a new graphics card aimed at the mainstream market, whist sharing many of the exciting features of the latest [...]

Today HIS is proud to announce the new HIS 5550 Silence 1GB DDR2 low-profile Graphics card, the world’s first Silence 5500 series low-profile graphics card. Supporting the innovative DirectX 11, Full 1080p and ATI Stream Technology, HD 5550 offers you a multi-purpose solution for maximum versatility. HIS Radeon HD 5550 1GB DDR2 Silence is the [...]

Club3D has announced yet another card based on the 40nm Redwood GPU, the Radeon HD 5550 Noiseless Edition. As you could have guessed, the card features a dual slot passive cooling solution with a rather large aluminium heatsink and two copper heatpipes. As for the specs, the new HD 5550 features 320 Stream processors, a [...]