Our permanent readers already know, that AMD company decided to refresh a numbers of budget video card by renaming Radeon x1300 into Radeon x1550 with the appropriate increase in frequencies from 400/500 MHz to 550/800 MHz. The produced on 80 nm technologies video chip RV516 and RV505 must make possible to hold retail price video card series radeon x1550 at level $65-69, and new name will make possible to draw attention from new buyers, who sincerely will believe, that X1550 is better than X1300, and almost as fast as X1600.
The company powerColor (TUL) today announced the entire family video card radeon x1550, in which was located the place not only for the usual modifications with interface PCI express x16, but also for the version with interface AGP 8x, or the passively cooled versions. .
Version with the suffix SCS uses a passive cooling system with thermal tube. PowerColor that the frequency core video card increased from standard 550 MHz to 600 MHz. The memory frequency is equal to 800 MHz DDR, such card use 256 mb memory of type DDR-2. Video card has 128- bit memory system bus . Directly video chip has 4 blocks pixel shader and 2 blocks vertex shader.
The complete enumeration of models can be found on the site of producer. Memory capacity varies from 128 to 512 mb., the word length of the system bus memory varies from 64 to 128 bits. Video card are equipped either with two ports DVI or combination of port DVI and port D -Sub. Version with the passive cooling can have 256 mb. or 512 mb. of memory. The frequencies of all modifications remain constant - 600/800 MHz.
Video card radeon x1550 with interface AGP 8x is equipped with 256 mb of memory type DDR-2, it has 64- bit system bus, and it operates at frequencies 600/800 MHz. Which is characteristic, for all video card of family radeon x1550 , company powerColor mentions about the use of 90 nm video chip. This is completely regular.
The recommended retail price of the version radeon x1550 with 256 mb of memory is equal to $69. With selection of modification should be focused attention on the word length of the system bus memory, since version with the 64- bit system bus has lower speed, but the difference vs version which possesses 128- bit system bus, is not so great. Related Products :
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