HIS Radeon HD 5550 1GB GDDR3 Review
Games
Published: 6th July 2010 | Source: HIS | Price: ~£65 Est. |
DiRT2
DiRT2 is a very recent race driving game, known for it's Direct X 11 support. Let's crank up the settings and give it a whirl...
For most of the part DiRT2 was playable on the HD 5550; even at a resolution of 1920x1200. The performance is adequate but it's hard to ignore that the HD 5670 beats it by huge margins.
Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
Modern Warfare 2 is among the most popular games available at present. With plenty of explosions and densely (polygon) populated maps, it should prove to be an interesting test for our setup.
The beatings continue in Modern Warfare 2, however once again the gaming experience was playable. With the exception of the drop to 9fps during a hefty explosion, the framerates remain in the 30's offering reasonably fluid game play.
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead is a very popular hit and should be an interesting choice to take our testbed for a spin. Let's see how well it performs.
L4D is an older hit than DiRT2 and MW2 but still, the HD 5550 continues to struggle.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Flight Simulator X remains to be a terribly demanding game for it's age. Known for being very demanding on the CPU but also requiring a level of GPU power in the process, we thought it'd be interesting to see how it faired.
The two graphics cards remain very much on par with each other here, most likely due to a CPU bottleneck. Let's wrap this one up.
Most Recent Comments
Sorry, been waiting ages to drop that one
EDIT. Reason is most onboard tripe has a HDMI out now and that usually means BR playback is a given. A friend of mine got a card similar to this recently (4 series) for about £35. He said it was fine with BR.
Haha ! I ran Batman and benched it with just my 280.. Then I enabled the 8400 and set it to do Physx. I scored about 10 times lower
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Originally Posted by name='AMDFTW'
would this playback full bluray 24p flawless
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Originally Posted by name='alexhull24'
My Radeon 4350 that cost £20 will do that, though it struggles in any 3D really, as expected. I'm struggling to see really what benefits such an expensive HTPC card (at £65 in comparison) would have over my cheap-ass one for pure HTPC uses. The 5xxx series has slightly improved audio over HDMI if I remember correctly, but not a lot to add. The extra power would be wasted in my setup.
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For pure media playback purposes, no the HD 5550's extra grunt will not be noticeable over the HD 5450 or infact it's predecessors. However, this is a product that offers a level of gaming ability at the same time and let's not forget the growing number of GPU Accelerated applications for media encoding.
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