Thursday, June 24th 2010
Club3D Intros Radeon HD 5550 Card with 2 GB Memory
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 uses an active GPU cooler, and draws all its power from the PCI-E slot. The DirectX 11 compliant Radeon HD 5550 GPU has 320 stream processors, and a 128-bit wide memory interface, with clock speeds of 650 MHz core, 1200 MHz (2400 MHz effective) memory. Display connectivity includes one each of DVI-D, D-Sub, and HDMI. Club3D did not give out a price.
74 Comments on Club3D Intros Radeon HD 5550 Card with 2 GB Memory
and 2GB memory? beyond pointless. 512MB is all these need.
EDIT: I suppose would be good for a low power, low heat, HTPC for 1 or 2 60" monitor/s or TV's maybe?
But still, 2GB?
This card's sounding more useful the more I think about it, I'm just waiting to find out the price.
Like Mussels said, 512MB would be fine. Less production costs, less consumer costs.
"Supercomputer!! -AMD 2.6 Ghz processor, 6 gig RAM, 1TB HDD, Powerful ATI Radeon 2GB!!!! 500 € !!!" and then they have these old/slow components like Celeron, ddr 2 and HD 5550 2gb.. They fool alot of people that way.
in this case, the ram is just useless - even a 5870 cant use 2GB of ram.uhh.... again i am stumped by strange logic. because its running DDR3 its got half the bandwidth, so the ram is TWICE as useless. four times the ram it needs, at half the speed it needs...
Looks like it will beat a 4650 and i used to game ok with a 4650 at 1280/1024.
It also would be usefull just for basic needs.
this is definitely lure the customers whose thought that "more memory the better !!". ofcourse not speeds comes from the actual performance of the chip itself and they are probably priced correctly these days on the web.
i wan't a HD 5550 with GDDR5 as the gpu overclocks like hell and the ram should follow that :laugh:
then add some 6pin soldered by hand and a voltage mod :roll:
i used to work in computer shop and when i ask ppl what GPU they have , many of them will reply with 128MB card or 512MB card "yeah it was long time ago" :) , i think this card meant to these ppl and trust me they are alot
If you were to comapre them directly, DDR5 at 128 bit would be the same as 256 bit DDR3.
only problem, do they even sell club 3d cards at newegg lol