ATI Radeon X550

Without any special publicity, they began shipping ATI’s next low-end controller.

As the name of the product suggests, it’s definitely made for the highly price-sensitive market, but the newcomer is a little stronger than the current low-end Radeon X300 family.

Like the Radeon X300s, it will have four pixel processing pipelines and two vertex units, available with both 64-bit and 128-bit memory rails. Its clock speed is 400 MHz, while its memory works at 550 MHz. It is expected to arrive only in a PCI Express edition.

Of course, the increasingly popular cost-cutting HyperMemory technology is also supported by the series, however, in most cases the card can hold 128 MB of full memory. The product line, which promises a slightly higher level than the Radeon X300s, starts at $ 59, so we get a very good value for money blood upgrade.

128-bit GeCube version

64-bit GeCube version