Powercolor Radeon HD 5550 Review

Specifications:

Features:

• 627 million 40nm transistors
• TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
• DDR2 memory interface
• PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
• DirectX® 11 support
• OpenGL 3.2 support^1
• Image quality enhancement technology
• ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology^2,3
• ATI Stream acceleration technology
• ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology^6
• ATI Avivo™ HD Video & Display technology^7
• ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology^7
• Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

1. OpenCL compliant driver and SDK release scheduled for later in 2010 2. ATI Eyefinity Technology can support up to 6 displays using a single enabled ATI Radeon™ graphics card – the number of displays may vary by board design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort™ connectors, and/or certified DisplayPort™ adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s), are required 3. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios which is required for panning across three displays 4. Requires application support for ATI Stream technology 5. Digital rights management restrictions may apply 6. ATI CrossFireX™ technology requires an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard, an ATI CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect (for each additional graphics card) and may require a specialized power supply 7. ATI PowerPlay™, ATI Avivo™ and ATI Stream are technology platforms that include a broad set of capabilities offered by certain ATI Radeon™ HD GPUs. Not all products have all features and full enablement of some capabilities and may require complementary products 8. Upscaling subject to available monitor resolution 9. Adobe Flash video acceleration and post-processing is supported for H.264-encoded content. Requires Adobe Flash Player 10.1 plug-in and ATI Catalyst 9.11 or higher video driver.. 10. Blu-ray or HD DVD drive and HD monitor required 11. Requires Blu-ray movie disc supporting dual 1080p streams 12. Playing HDCP content requires additional HDCP ready components, including but not limited to an HDCP ready monitor, Blu-ray or HD DVD disc drive, multimedia application and computer operating system. 13. Some custom resolutions require user configuration

Courtesy of PowerColor @ http://powercolor.com/us/products_features.asp?id=238#Specification