Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark06

The Radeon HD 4550 cannot match the GeForce 9500 GT in terms of overall score or in the individual groups of tests. The gap is smaller in the SM3.0/HDR tests due to the good computing capabilities of the new Radeon.

The SM2.0 tests agree with the overall scores but the gap is smaller in the second test. And in the second SM3.0/HDR test the Radeon HD 4550 is even better than the GeForce 9500 GT. The overall results are logical enough, confirming our supposition about the misbalance of the Radeon HD 4550 architecture: the card has rather advanced computing resources but a weak texture-mapping and rasterization subsystem.